Oral history interview with Kenneth Frampton, 2008.

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Oral history interview with Kenneth Frampton, 2008.

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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.

transcript: 43 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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Professor/Architect. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth Frampton, 2008. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606988016 ...

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Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

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