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Kenneth Frampton
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Architectural historian Kenneth Frampton remembers the exact moment of his political awakening.
Arriving in the United States in 1965, flying over the blazing island of Manhattan and suddenly grasping the visibility of capitalist power there—“a ferocious panorama” of light, cars and consumption that stood in stark contrast to what he calls the “concealed” capitalism of mid-century Britain. From…