Kenneth Frampton is an internationally respected architectural critic who holds the Ware Professorship at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He lectures extensively in the US and Europe, and has also written, edited and contributed to numerous publications on contemporary architecture. He is the author of 'Modern Architecture: A Critical History' (1980; revised 1985 and 1992) and 'Studies in Tectonic Culture' (1997). His collected essays 'Labour, Work and Architecture' were published by Phaidon in 2002.