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Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. Installation view, 2017
Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern Architecture,” and the housing studio unit on the “Perimeter Block.” In the 1990s, he started teaching “Studies in Tectonic Culture,” which also became a long-standing history and theory course.
Structured around the syllabi of these four courses, this exhibition showcases Frampton’s archive—recently arrived at the CCA—to illustrate his multi-generational impact on the landscape of architecture education. Encompassing drawings, models, photographs, proposals, papers, lectures, slide shows, essays, monographs, letters, and autobiographical documents, the exhibition highlights how Frampton’s pedagogical methods and concerns were instrumental in shaping the discipline and profession of architecture internationally.
Curator: Kim Förster, CCA
Graphic design: Principal, Montreal
Selected objects
Kenneth Frampton. Axonometric study drawing of the Maison de Verre, 1968. Pierre Chareau, architect. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH278710
Kenneth Frampton. Annotated sketch of the Maison de Verre, 1965. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH279518
IAUS. Conference invitation card for Architecture Education/USA, MoMA, 1971. Peter Eisenman fonds, CCA. ARCH153574
Kenneth Frampton. “Labour Work & Architecture,” in Meaning in Architecture, 1970. CCA. P03543
Kenneth Frampton. Syllabus for “Concepts, Values and Methods,” Princeton University, 1968. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH279010
Robin Middleton. Letter to Kenneth Frampton from Architectural Design, 1968. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH278953
Cover of Gendai kenchikushi, by Kenneth Frampton (Seidosha, 2015). CCA. BIB 239547
Kenneth Frampton. Drawing of street unit and public stoop, 1973. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH 278934
IAUS. Exhibition catalogue of Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives, MoMA, 1973. Kenneth Frampton fonds, CCA. ARCH153581
Syllabi
Examples of syllabi of four courses, developed by Kenneth Frampton at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Planning between 1973 and 1995, are available in PDF format:
Comprehensive Studio III: Composite Perimeter Housing Prototype, 1977
Thresholds in the History of Western Architecture II, 1983
Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, 1984
Studies in Tectonic Culture, 1995
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