Keynote Address by Kenneth Frampton!

Kenneth Frampton Keynote Address + Special Reception

Thursday, June 7, 7 pm
Hall 12, Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Avenue

Kenneth Frampton trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian/critic in England, Israel and the United States. He is currently the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. His books include Modern Architecture: a Critical History (1980), Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), Le Corbusier (2002) and Labor, Work and Architecture (2002). An updated and expanded fourth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History will be released in the summer of 2007.