Oral history interview with Kenneth Frampton, 2008.

Biographical Note

Professor/Architect.

Scope and Contents

Early work doing multi-story buildings in London, work with Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, low-rise high-density urban housing prototype design with Arthur Baker, visit to and influence of Siedlung Halen, work with Urban Development Corporation, benefits of low -rise high-density urban housing, including 1972 exhibition at MOMA. Desirable characteristics of prototype, significance of parking areas, stoops, and community. Role of government and politics in urban housing, including HUD, Nixon, and Logue. Choice to write and teach rather than continue to design and build. Tension between individual and collective in Western architecture, issues of community, space, suburban vs.urban.

Subjects

• Architects--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Architecture, Domestic.
• City planning.
• Columbia University--Faculty--Interviews.
• Community development.
• Frampton, Kenneth--Interviews.
• Housing policy--United States.
• Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
• Interviews.
• Kubey, Karen, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.

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