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Architecture |Theory|
since 1968
edited by K. Michael Hays
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In the discussion of architecture, the prevailing sentiment of the past three decades has been that cultural production can no longer be understood to arise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but is constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes–poststructuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric–has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architecture's general importance in intellectual discourse.
This long-awaited anthology is in some sense a sequel to Joan Ockman's Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology (1993). It presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architectural theory, introducing each by detailing the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.
K. Michael Hays is a Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard University
CONTENTS
Introduction
Manfredo Tafuri | "Towards a Critique of Architectural Ideology"
George Baird | "'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture
Archizoom Associati | No-Stop City
Denise Scott Brown | "Learning from Pop"
Aldo Rossi | Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena
Colin Rowe | Introduction to Five Architects
John Hejduk | Wall Houses
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter | From Collage City
Mario Gandelsonas | "Linguistics in Architecture"
Masimo Scolari | "The New Architecture and the Avant Garde"
Manfredo Tafuri | "L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language
of Criticism and the Criticism
of Language"
Henri Lefebvre | From The Production of Space
Denis Hollier | "Architectural Metaphors"
Diana Agrest | "Design versus Non-Design"
Bernard Tschumi | "The Architectural Paradox"
Museum of Modern Art, New York | The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Peter Eisenman | "Post-Functionalism"
Robert A. M. Stern | "Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy"
Martin Steinmann | "Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture"
Bernard Huet | "Formalism – Realism"
Jorge Silvetti | "The Beauty of Shadows"
Anthony Vidler | "The Third Typology"
George Teyssot | "Heterotopias and the History of Spaces"
Charles A. Jencks | "Post-Modern Architecture"
James Stirling | Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Rem Koolhaas | "Life in the Metropolis"
Alan Colquhoun | "From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty Dumpty Together Again"
Maurice Culot and Leon Krier | "The Only Path for Architecture"
Leon Krier | School at Quentin-en-Yvelines
Kenneth Frampton | "The Status of Man and the Status of Objects:
A Reading of The Human Condition"
Frank Gehry | Gehry House, Santa Monica, California
José Quetglas | "Loss of synthesis: Mies's Pavilion"
Massimo Cacciari | "Eupalinos or Architecture"
Bernard Tschumi | The Manhattan Transcripts
Jürgen Habermas | "Modern and Postmodern Architecture"
Michel Foucault | "Space, Knowledge, and Power"
Frederic Jameson | "Architecture and the Critique of Ideology"
Alberto Pérez-Gómez | Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Daniel Libeskind | Chamber Works
Robin Evans | "In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind"
Stanford Anderson | "Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs"
Jean-Louis Cohen | "The Italophiles at Work"
Peter Eisenman | "The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, The End of the End"
Paul Virilio | "The Overexposed City"
Robert Segrest | "The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design"
Jacques Derrida | "Point de folie – Maintenant l'architecture"
Peter Eisenman | Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence
Sanford Kwinter | "La Città Nuova: Modernity and Continuity"
Ignasi de Solà-Morales | "Weak Architecture"
Beatriz Colomina | "L'Esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicite"
Catherine Ingraham | "The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism"
Mark Wigley | "The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel"
Museum of Modern Art, New York | Deconstructivist Architecture
Mary McLeod | "Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era:
from Postmodernism to Deconstructivism"
Rem Koolhaas | Bibliothèque de France, Paris
Jeffrey Kipnis | "/Twisting the Separatrix/"
Anthony Vidler | From The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Jennifer Bloomer | "Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower"
R. E. Somol | "One or Several Masters?"
Index
Publication Title
Architecture Theory since 1968
Year Published
1998, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, MIT Press
Editor(s)/Author(s)
K. Michael Hays
Format
808 pages, collection of essays on Architectural Theory
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collection: NA680.A728 1998
Special Collections: Rare NA680.A728 1998