Architecture Theory since 1968 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262082616 ISBN 13: 9780262082617

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1998

Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Archizoom, George Baird, Jennifer Bloomer, Massimo Cacciari, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Alan Colquhoun, Maurice Culot, Jacques Derrida, Ignasi de Solá-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Frank Gehry, Jürgen Habermas, John Hejduk, Denis Hollier, Bernard Huet, Catherine Ingraham, Fredric Jameson, Charles A. Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Sanford Kwinter, Henri Lefebvre, Daniel Libeskind, Mary McLeod, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, José Quetglas, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Massimo Scolari, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Segrest, Jorge Silvetti, Robert Somol, Martin Steinmann, Robert A. M. Stern, James Stirling, Manfredo Tafuri, Georges Teyssot, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Paul Virilio, Mark Wigley.

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About the Author

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.

Review

"Michael Hays' anthology of 47 texts and 12 drawings, Architectural Theory Since 1968, purports to include the most representative and important texts of contemporary architectural theory. His purpose is to show the evolution of architectural theory and its role as mediator between our society and its architecture, thus opening architecture up to other disciplines of thought. The sum of his efforts in intended to constitute the necessary history on which new theories will be built. With a few reservations, Hays' book exceeds expectations... Michael Hays has done a great service for academics and practitioners alike by charting the configuration of contemporary architectural theory." -- Edward R. Frenette, AIA, ArchitectureBoston, Issue #3, 1998

Edition details

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0262082616
• ISBN 13: 9780262082617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 784
• Editor: Hays K. Michael