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website: OASE # 103Abstract: The English architect, historian, critic and educator&#160;Kenneth Frampton&#160;received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement&#160;at the latest Venice Biennale 2018. There is no architecture student that is not familiar with the book&#160;Modern Architecture: A Critical History&#160;(1980) of this renowned historian, nor with his essay&#160;‘Towards a Critical Regionalism, Six Points of an Architecture of Resistance’ (1983).&#160;In this last text, Frampton searched for an&#160;alternative approach towards architecture by defining the specifics of topography, climate, light and tectonics as essential to the art of building.This issue of&#160;OASE&#160;examines the canonical role of&#160;Kenneth Frampton’s concept of ‘Critical Regionalism’, reaching beyond its traditional interpretation. It gathers contributions that propose a new genealogy of the text, critical re-readings and explorations by practicing architects and architecture theorists that evaluate the interest of Frampton’s ideas for contemporary architecture.