Architect Kenneth Frampton. PHOTO: Manuel Castells

Architect, historian and architecture critic Kenneth Frampton, professor at Columbia University (USA), has been distinguished with the 1st Javier Carvajal International Architecture Award award . The submission will take place next Wednesday, May 2, at the classroom Magna of the School of Architecture of the academic center.

The board of trustees of the award is formed by this center, as well as 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.

The distinction 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 can be found at file of the School of Architecture 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 1955 he was a pensioner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he lived until 1957, the year in which he was named Master Academic Honoris Causa of the Academia Mondiale Degli Artisti e Profesionisti di Roma. In 1964 he built the Spanish pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Thanks to him he obtained the award of the Rockefeller Foundation and international recognition.

In 1965 he became the first Full Professor of the School of Madrid to win his Chair building a 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. From 1976 he was Full Professor of Projects at the University of Navarra.

degree program Among the numerous awards and distinctions he received throughout his professional career, the following stand out: 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 (b. 1930) studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He currently teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University, New York, 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 Chair Thomas Jefferson Chair. He is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture. His most important work is Critical History of Modern Architecture, in which he provides a comprehensive analysis of modern architecture.