British architect Kenneth Frampton vested Doctor Honoris Causa by UAH. The academic promoters have been the teachers Rosa Cervera and Fernando Quesada. On Wednesday, January 28, from 12 am, will be held in the auditorium the academic ceremony to mark the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas in the rectorate of the UAH, Colegio de San Ildefonso (Plaza de San Diego s / n, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid).

The event can be followed live via the website of the University (www.uah.es). Kenneth Frampton is considered one of the critics and theorists of the most influential architecture in recent decades and his book, "Critical History of Modern Architecture" is a reference in the world of architecture.

The next day, on Thursday, Kenneth Frampton will lecture, Genealogy of Modern Architecture, open to everyone in the School of Architecture at the University of Alcalá.

Frampton was born in the UK in 1930, where he graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He is currently Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, at Columbia University, New York.

Frampton played a key role in the architectural thinking of the ’80s and ’90s, suggesting alternative pathways for architecture. He rescued the idea of critical regionalism, one anchored to both practice and history, and urged architects to consider their relationship with place. His best known theoretical work — Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980) — was first published in 1980 and then revisited and republished various times afterwards.

Venue.- Aula 1.1. Escuela de Arquitectura, calle Santa Úrsula, 108. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Date.- 11,30 h. Thursday, January 29th, 2015. Free admision.

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Kenneth Frampton (1930) studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Subsequently he worked in Israel, with Middlesex County Council and Douglas Stephen and Partners (1961–66), during which time he was also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art (1961–64), tutor at the Architectural Association (1961–63) and Technical Editor of the journal Architectural Design (AD) (1962–65).

Frampton has also taught at Princeton University (1966–71) and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, (1980). He has been a member of the faculty at Graduate School of Architecture and Planning of Columbia University since 1972, and that same year he became a fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York -- (whose members also included Peter Eisenman, Manfredo Tafuri and Rem Koolhaas) -- and a co-founding editor of its magazine Oppositions.

Frampton is a permanent resident of the USA.

Frampton is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985, 1992 and 2007) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). Frampton achieved great prominence (and influence) in architectural education with his essay "Towards a Critical Regionalism" (1983) — though the term had already been coined by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre. Also, Frampton's essay was included in a book The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster, though Frampton is critical of postmodernism. Frampton's own position attempts to defend a version of modernism that looks to either critical regionalism or a 'momentary' understanding of the autonomy of architectural practice in terms of its own concerns with form and tectonics which cannot be reduced to economics (whilst conversely retaining a Leftist viewpoint regarding the social responsibility of architecture).

In 2002 a collection of Frampton's writings over a period of 35 years was collated and published under the title Labour, Work and Architecture.

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