Mariano González Presencio, director of the School of Architecture, and Kenneth Frampton PHOTO: Manuel Castells

"Kenneth Frampton's publications and books have contributed to educate, train and make think to generations of architects around the world". This was stated at the University of Navarra by architect Francisco Mangado on the occasion of the submission of the I Javier Carvajal International Architecture award to this Professor Emeritus of Columbia University (USA).

The board of trustees of the award is made up of the School of Architecture of the campus of Pamplona, the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), the committee Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE) and the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad.

Professor Mangado praised the figure and career of the architect, historian and architecture critic, of whom he highlighted a teaching: "His conception of architecture as a public fact, and therefore subject of public dimension, has helped to recover B a way of thinking where the role of the city, the public space, the context and the social responsibility of the architect occupy a role of extraordinary importance".

Likewise, Professor José Manuel Pozo, secretary of the board of trustees, pointed out that "it has been the wish of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, promoter of the award, that those who had been students of Javier Carvajal could contribute to its support, as a reliable test of recognition and admiration for his person, his teaching and his work. For this reason, on the back of the diploma granted to Professor Frampton there is a complete list of the persons and institutions that have wished to join in the granting of the award".

Masterclass

Professor Kenneth Frampton gave a masterclass in which he analyzed the style, technique and social purpose of British architectural culture from the end of World War II in 1945 until 1965. He focused on some of the most significant protagonists and buildings of the period.

The award Javier Carvajal International Architecture Award goal recognizes the coherence, entity and solidity of people or institutions committed to the dissemination and teaching of architecture. It also praises the work of architect Javier Carvajal, whose bequest is located at the file General of the University of Navarra.

The biennial award is endowed with a prize of 12,000 euros and an engraved reproduction on aluminum of the floor plan of the house that Javier Carvajal Ferrer built for himself in 1966 in Somosaguas (Madrid), and for which he received, in 1968, the award Fritz Schumacher of the Technical University of Hannover for the best construction in Europe that year.

Javier Carvajal: an architect of international prestige

Javier Carvajal (Barcelona, 1926) obtained the degree scroll of architect with award Extraordinary End of degree program in 1953 by the School of Architecture of Madrid. In 1965 he became the first Full Professor of the Madrid School to earn his Chair by building modern architecture. In 1973 he was appointed director of the School of Architecture of Barcelona and in 1974, of the School of Architecture of Las Palmas.

He combined his work professor with the positions of Dean of the high school Official Architects of Madrid. Since 1976 he has been Full Professor of Projects at the University of Navarra.

Among the numerous awards and distinctions he received throughout his professional career, degree program , are the Medal of Fine Arts in the Architecture Section (1960); the Knight's Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic for services to Spanish architecture abroad; the award for Best International Architecture at the New York World's Fair from high school of American Architects (1964); and the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1973).

Kenneth Frampton: expert in modern and contemporary architecture

Architect, historian and architectural critic Kenneth Frampton (1930) studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He currently teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University (USA), as Professor Emeritus of the Chair Ware.

He has also taught at the Royal College of Art in London and the ETH in Zurich, and most recently at the University of Virginia, where he has held the Thomas Jefferson Chair at Chair . He is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture. His most important work is Critical History of Modern Architecture.