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Kenneth Frampton

1930 - Today

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Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture and contemporary architecture. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, where he taught for over 50 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Frampton has received more than 169,243 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Frampton is the 461st most popular architect (down from 398th in 2019), the 4,213th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,482nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Architect.

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  • 15

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kenneth Frampton ranks 461 out of 518Before him are Anastasios Metaxas, Andrei Stackenschneider, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Alexander Wittek, Ivan Fomin, and Nicholas Hawksmoor. After him are Kolyu Ficheto, Gunnar Birkerts, Suad Amiry, Max Taut, Harry Vardon, and Patricia Urquiola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Kenneth Frampton ranks 475Before him are Cabeção, Ty Hardin, John Keel, Andy White, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, and Vladimir Andreyev. After him are Jasraj, Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Geoffrey Holder, Sachiko Hidari, Alberto Pellegrino, and Oscar Rossi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Frampton ranks 4,213 out of 8,785Before him are Steven Moffat (1961), John Richardson (1934), Clive Dunn (1920), Robbie Fowler (1975), Robert Herrick (1591), and Anita Roddick (1942). After him are N. G. L. Hammond (1907), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), Antonia Fraser (1932), Richard Palmer-James (1947), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), and Jacqueline Wilson (1945).

Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Frampton ranks 33Before him are Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Edward Blore (1787), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), and Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661). After him are Richard Knill Freeman (1840), James Wyatt (1746), William Burges (1827), Robert Smirke (1780), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880), and James Gibbs (1682).