Online Library TheLib.net » Architecture Theory since 1968
The MIT Press, 1998. — 784 p. — ISBN: 0262082616
In 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 Contents
Introduction
1969 Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology
Manfredo Tafuri
1969 'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture
George Baird
1970 No-Stop City
Achizoom Associati

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

1972 Introduction to Five Architects
Colin Rowe
1968-74 Wall House
John Hejduk

1973 From College City, manuscript in circulation from 1973; published 1978
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter
1973 Linguistics in Architecture
Mario Gandelsonas
1973 The New Architecture and the Avant-Garde
Massimo Scolari
1974 L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language
Manfredo Tafuri
1974 From The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre
1974 Architectural Metaphors
Denis Hollier
1974 Design versus Non-Design
Diana I. Agrest
1975 The Architectural Paradox
Bernard Tschumi
1975 The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
New York Museum of Modern Art

1976 Post-Functionalism
Peter Eisenman
1976 Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy
Robert A.M. Stern
1976 Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture
Martin Steinmann
1977 Formalism-Realism
Bernard Huet
1977 The Beauty of Shadows
Jorge Silvetti
1977 The Third Typology
Anthony Vidler
1977 Heterotopias and the History of Spaces
Georges Teyssot
1977 Post-Modern Architecture
Charles Jencks
1977-82 Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
James Stirling

1977 'Life in the Metropolis' or 'The Culture of Congestion'
Rem Koolhaas
1978 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again
Alan Colquhoun
1978 The Only Path for Architecture
Maurice Culot and Leon Krier
1977-79 School at Quentin-en-Yvelines
Leon Krier
1979 The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition
Kenneth Frampton
1979 Gehry House, Santa Monica, California
Frank O. Gehry

1980 Loss of Synthesis: Mies's Pavilion
José Quetglas
1980 Eupalinos or Architecture
Massimo Cacciari
1981 The Manhattan Transcripts
Bernard Tschumi

1981 Modern and Postmodern Architecture
Jürgen Habermas
1982 Space, Knowledge, and Power
Michel Foucault
1982 Architecture and the Critique of Ideology
Fredric Jameson
1983 Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
1983 Chamber Works
Daniel Libeskind
1984 In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind
Robin Evans
1984 Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs
Stanford Anderson
1984 The Italophiles at Work
Jean-Louis Cohen
1984 The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End
Paul Virilio and Peter Eisenman
1984 The Overexposed City
Paul Virilio
1984 The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design
Robert Segrest
1986 Point de folie-Maintenant l'architecture
Jacques Derrida
1986 Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence
Peter Eisenman
1986 La Cittá Nuova: Modernity and Continuity
Sanford Kwinter
1987 Weak Architecture
Ignasi de Solá-Morales
1988 L'esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicité
Beatriz Colomina
1988 The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism
Catherine Ingraham
1988 The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel
Mark Wigley
1988 Deconstructivist Architecture
New York Museum of Modern Art

1989 Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism
Mary McLeod
1989 Bibliothèque de France, Paris
Rem Koolhaas

1991 /Twisting the Separatrix/
Jeffrey Kipnis
1992 From The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Anthony Vidler
1992 Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower
Jennifer Bloomer
1993 One or Several Masters?
R.E. Somol
Index
Download the book Architecture Theory since 1968 for free or read online
Read Download
Continue reading on any device:
QR code
Last viewed books
Related books
Comments (0)
reload, if the code cannot be seen