Will and Nan Clarkson
Visiting Chair

Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Frampton studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Subsequently he worked in Israel, during which time he was also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association, and Technical Editor of the journal Architectural Design.

Frampton has also taught at Princeton University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He has been a member of the faculty at Columbia University since 1972, and that same year he became a fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York – and a co-founding editor of its magazine Oppositions.

Frampton is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History and Studies in Tectonic Culture and achieved great prominence (and influence) in architectural education with his essay “Towards a Critical Regionalism” which was included in a book, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster. 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.

Past Clarkson Visiting Chairs

  • 2007 Joan Ockman
  • 2006 Anthony Vidler
  • 2005 Glenn Murcutt
  • 2004 Peter Zumthor
  • 2004 Michael Kwartler
  • 2003 Lars Lerup
  • 2003 Gerrit-Jan Knaap
  • 2001 Alan Artibise
  • 2000 Mark Wigley
  • 2000 Michael Storper
  • 1999 K. Michael Hayes
  • 1998 Robert Yaro
  • 1996 Sanford Kwinter
  • 1995 Patsy Healey
  • 1994 Daniel Hoffman
  • 1993 M. Christine Boyer
  • 1992 Alberto Perez-Gomez
  • 1991 John Forester
  • 1990 Marco Frascari

The Clarkson Visiting Chair is an endowed visiting position awarded semiannually to a distinguished scholar or professional in the disciplines of architecture, planning, and design. This award is in recognition of excellence in the pursuit of scholarship and professional application within these disciplines and is made possible by the generous support of Will and Nan Clarkson.