PlanPhilly: Planning Philadelphia's Future

MEGAFORM AS URBAN LANDSCAPE
Drexel University Department of Architecture presents
Farajollah & Maryam Badie Arfaa Lecture Series
MEGAFORM AS URBAN LANDSCAPE
by Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton is an architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.. Frampton is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985, 1992 and 2007) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). Frampton achieved great prominence in architectural education with his essay "Towards a Critical Regionalism” (1983) Frampton's supports a version of modernism that looks to either critical regionalism or a 'momentary' understanding of the autonomy of architectural practice in terms of its own concerns with form and tectonics which cannot be reduced to economics.

Mandell Theater, Drexel Univ, 33rd & Chestnut Streets
Cost: complimentary
Registration: Not Required
This Lecture is worth 2 AIA /CES Learning Units
Contact: Paul Hirshorn, 215-895-2409, architecture@drexel.edu