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Artforum reports today
that the English architect, writer, critic, and historian Kenneth
Frampton is this year’s recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Frampton, who has
been a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and
Preservation at Columbia University in New York since 1972, is the
author of several seminal architecture texts, including the 1983 essay
“Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of
Resistance” and the 1996 book Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture.
“[Frampton]
stands out as the voice of truth in the promotion of key values of
architecture and its role in society,” Biennale curators Yvonne Farrell
and Shelley McNamara said in a statement. “His humanistic philosophy in
relation to architecture is embedded in his writing and he has
consistently argued for this humanistic component throughout all the
various ‘movements’ and trends often misguided in architecture in the
twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.”
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