Der englische Architekt, Historiker, Kritiker und Pädagoge Kenneth Frampton (* 1930 London) erhält den Goldenen Löwen für das Lebenswerk der 16. Internationalen Architekturausstellung von La Biennale di Venezia.

Trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, Kenneth Frampton has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian and critic, and is now Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio.

As architect, writer and critic, as teacher and researcher, he has affected and inspired several generations of students and architects. Modern Architecture: A Critical History is one of his most recognized books. His seminal books include Towards a Critical Regionalism, which was a leader in the influencing of architects to re-value context, place and culture. His Studies on Tectonic Culture was a key work in highlighting the connection between the language of construction and language of architecture. In A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, he captures with incisive clarity the inner workings of projects, de-coding them to make them legible for us all.

(Aus Presseinformationen, 18. April 2018. Foto: Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia )