Architecture Theory A Reader in Philosophy and Culture

by Ballantyne, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780826464088
• ISBN10: 0826464084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Architecture Theory is a comprehensive and groundbreaking one volume overview of, and introduction to, contemporary critical discourse in architecture. In bringing critical theory and Continental philosophy to bear upon architecture, it provides a solid framework for a fully up-to-date theory of architecture, one that reflects the latest developments and concerns. The book is divided into four sections--groundwork; constructing the 'individual'; pluralities; instrumentality--each covering a core theme in contemporary architecture theory. In each section an introductory essay by Andrew Ballantyne provides valuable context, exposition and analysis. This is followed by a selection of writings on architecture and other related cultural concerns from major contemporary thinkers, including Ž iž ek, Irigaray, Lefebvre, Lyotard, Kristeva, Nancy, Virilio, Deleuze and Negri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface	ix
Section 1: Powers of Ten	1	(32)
Georges Bataille	15	(11)
Percy Bysshe Shelley	26	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	30	(3)
Section 2: Groundwork	33	(74)
Gaston Bachelard and Michel Tournier	42	(6)
William James	48	(13)
John Dewey	61	(6)
Charles Sanders Peirce	67	(4)
Gregory Bateson	71	(17)
Walter Benjamin, Louis Aragon and Karl Marx	88	(5)
Diane Favro	93	(14)
Section 3: Individual	107	(50)
Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek	118	(8)
Samuel Butler	126	(18)
Donna Haraway	144	(6)
Henry David Thoreau	150	(7)
Section 4: Pluralities	157	(74)
Paul Ricoeur and Nelson Goodman	169	(13)
Michel Serres	182	(21)
Edgar Allen Poe	203	(7)
Mabel O. Wilson and Le Corbusier	210	(21)
Section 5: Relations	231	(76)
Gilles Deleuze	245	(8)
Brian Massumi	253	(6)
Patsy Healey	259	(13)
Ian Buchanan and Fredric Jameson	272	(29)
Heinrich von Kleist	301	(6)
Index	307