Kenneth Frampton
Reflections on the predicament of architecture: seven points in retrospect
Kenneth Frampton’s presentation will advance a critique of the current malaise in architectural education and of the equally debilitating state of contemporary practice. These aspects are evident in the current postmodern tendency to reduce architecture either to design of spectacular sculpture at a gargantuan scale or to the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology in order to favour the maximization of profit. Both of these Neoliberal impulses have deprived modern architecture of its former ameliorative character, namely, the formulation of the building task in a socio- ethical and spatially innovative manner. The lecture will attempt to trace the subtle ideological shifts and the changes in nomenclature that have accompanied our currently unsustainable degradation of the megalopolitan environment.
Robert Maxwell Memorial Lectures
Thursday 22 April 2021
6pm BST [1pm EDT]
Introduction
Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
University of Liverpool
Mark Swenarton
University of Liverpool
Lecture
Kenneth Frampton
Columbia University
Conclusion
Marco Iuliano
University of Liverpool
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University of Liverpool School of Architecture