Ebook: Architecture Theory since 1968

The MIT Press, 1998. — 784 p. — ISBN: 0262082616In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes—post-structuralist, 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 architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of 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 Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art. He is the author, among other books, of Modern Architecture and the Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction1969 Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology
Manfredo Tafuri1969 'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture
George Baird1970 No-Stop City
Achizoom Associati

1971 Learning from Pop
Denise Scott Brown1971 Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena
Aldo Rossi

1972 Introduction to Five Architects
Colin Rowe1968-74 Wall House
John Hejduk

1973 From College City, manuscript in circulation from 1973; published 1978
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter1973 Linguistics in Architecture
Mario Gandelsonas1973 The New Architecture and the Avant-Garde
Massimo Scolari1974 L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language
Manfredo Tafuri1974 From The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre1974 Architectural Metaphors
Denis Hollier1974 Design versus Non-Design
Diana I. Agrest1975 The Architectural Paradox
Bernard Tschumi1975 The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
New York Museum of Modern Art

1976 Post-Functionalism
Peter Eisenman1976 Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy
Robert A.M. Stern1976 Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture
Martin Steinmann1977 Formalism-Realism
Bernard Huet1977 The Beauty of Shadows
Jorge Silvetti1977 The Third Typology
Anthony Vidler1977 Heterotopias and the History of Spaces
Georges Teyssot1977 Post-Modern Architecture
Charles Jencks1977-82 Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
James Stirling

1977 'Life in the Metropolis' or 'The Culture of Congestion'
Rem Koolhaas1978 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again
Alan Colquhoun1978 The Only Path for Architecture
Maurice Culot and Leon Krier1977-79 School at Quentin-en-Yvelines
Leon Krier1979 The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition
Kenneth Frampton1979 Gehry House, Santa Monica, California
Frank O. Gehry

1980 Loss of Synthesis: Mies's Pavilion
José Quetglas1980 Eupalinos or Architecture
Massimo Cacciari1981 The Manhattan Transcripts
Bernard Tschumi

1981 Modern and Postmodern Architecture
Jürgen Habermas1982 Space, Knowledge, and Power
Michel Foucault1982 Architecture and the Critique of Ideology
Fredric Jameson1983 Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Alberto Pérez-Gómez1983 Chamber Works
Daniel Libeskind1984 In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind
Robin Evans1984 Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs
Stanford Anderson1984 The Italophiles at Work
Jean-Louis Cohen1984 The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End
Paul Virilio and Peter Eisenman1984 The Overexposed City
Paul Virilio1984 The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design
Robert Segrest1986 Point de folie-Maintenant l'architecture
Jacques Derrida1986 Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence
Peter Eisenman1986 La Cittá Nuova: Modernity and Continuity
Sanford Kwinter1987 Weak Architecture
Ignasi de Solá-Morales1988 L'esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicité
Beatriz Colomina1988 The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism
Catherine Ingraham1988 The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel
Mark Wigley1988 Deconstructivist Architecture
New York Museum of Modern Art
1989 Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism
Mary McLeod1989 Bibliothèque de France, Paris
Rem Koolhaas
1991 /Twisting the Separatrix/
Jeffrey Kipnis1992 From The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Anthony Vidler1992 Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower
Jennifer Bloomer1993 One or Several Masters?
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