Architecture Theory Since 1968

by Hays, K. Michael

• ISBN13: 9780262581882
• ISBN10: 0262581884
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-28
• Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

Summary

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 architecture 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.

Author Biography

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	x
1969
``Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology,'' Contropiano 1 (January-April 1969)	2	(34)
Manfredo Tafuri
1969
`` `La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture,'' from Charles Jencks and George Baird, Meaning in Architecture	36	(20)
George Baird
1970
No-Stop City	56	(4)
Archizoom Associati
1971
``Learning from Pop,'' Casabella 359--360 (December 1971)	60	(8)
Denise Scott Brown
1971
Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena	68	(4)
Aldo Rossi
1972
Introduction to Five Architects	72	(14)
Colin Rowe
1968--74
Wall House	86	(2)
John Hejduk
1973
From Collage City, manuscript in circulation from 1973; published 1978	88	(24)
Colin Rowe
Fred Koetter
1973
``Linguistics in Architecture,'' Casabella 374 (February 1973)	112	(12)
Mario Gandelsonas
1973
``The New Architecture and the Avant-Garde,'' from Scolari et al., Architettura razionale	124	(22)
Massimo Scolari
1974
``L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language,'' Oppositions 3 (1974); expanded in Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth (1987)	146	(28)
Manfredo Tafuri
1974
From The Production of Space (English translation 1991)	174	(16)
Henri Lefebvre
1974
``Architectural Metaphors,'' from La prise de la Concorde; translated as Against Architecture (1989)	190	(8)
Denis Hollier
1974
``Design versus Non-Design,'' paper presented 1974; published in Oppositions 6 (Fall 1976)	198	(16)
Diana Agrest
1975
``The Architectural Paradox,'' Studio International, September-October 1975; revised in Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction (1994)	214	(16)
Bernard Tschumi
1975
Museum of Modern Art, New York The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts	230	(4)
1976
``Post-Functionalism,'' Oppositions 6 (Fall 1976)	234	(6)
Peter Eisenman
1976
``Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy,'' L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 186 (August-September 1976)	240	(6)
Robert A. M. Stern
1976
``Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture,'' A + U 69 (September 1976)	246	(8)
Martin Steinmann
1977
``Formalism---Realism,'' L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 190 (April 1977)	254	(8)
Bernard Huet
1977
``The Beauty of Shadows,'' Oppositions 9 (Summer 1977)	262	(22)
Jorge Silvetti
1977
``The Third Typology,'' Oppositions 7 (Winter 1977); expanded in Rational Architecture: The Reconstruction of the European City (1978)	284	(12)
Anthony Vidler
1977
``Heterotopias and the History of Spaces,'' from Teyssot et al., Il dispositivo Foucault; revised and translated in A + U 121 (October 1980)	296	(10)
Georges Teyssot
1977
``Post-Modern Architecture,'' from The Language of Post-Modern Architecture	306	(12)
Charles A. Jencks
1977--82
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart	318	(2)
James Stirling
1977
```Life in the Metropolis' or `The Culture of Congestion,'' Architectural Design 47, no. 5 (August 1977)	320	(12)
Rem Koolhaas
1978
``From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again,'' Oppositions 12 (Spring 1977)	332	(16)
Alan Colquhoun
1978
``The Only Path for Architecture,'' Archives d'Architecture Moderne 14 (2d trimester (1978); translated in Oppositions 14 (Fall 1978)	348	(8)
Maurice Culot
Leon Krier
1977--79
School at Quentin-en-Yvelines	356	(2)
Leon Krier
1979
``The Status of man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition,'' from Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Public World, ed. Melvyn A. Hill	358	(20)
Kenneth Frampton
1979
Gehry House, Santa Monica, California	378	(4)
Frank Gehry
1980
``Loss of Synthesis: Mies's Pavilion,'' Carrer de la Ciutat 11 (April 1980)	382	(10)
Jose Quetglas
1980
``Eupalinos or Architecture,'' Oppositions 21 (Summer 1980)	392	(16)
Massimo Cacciari
1981
The Manhattan Transcripts	408	(4)
Bernard Tschumi
1981
``Modern and Postmodern Architecture,'' lecture 1981; new translation in Habermas, The New Conservatism (1989)	412	(16)
Jurgen Harbermas
1982
``Space, Knowledge, and Power,'' interview with Paul Rabinow, Skyline, March 1982	428	(12)
Michel Foucault
1982
``Architecture and the Critique of Ideology,'' paper presented 1982; published in Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, ed. Joan Ockman et al. (1985)	440	(22)
Fredric Jameson
1983
Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science	462	(14)
Alberto Perez-Gomez
1983
Chamber Works	476	(4)
Daniel Libeskind
1984
``In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind,'' AA Files 6 (May 1984)	480	(10)
Robin Evans
1984
``Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs,'' Design Studies 5, no. 3 (July 1984)	490	(16)
Stanford Anderson
1984
``The Italophiles at Work,'' from La coupure entre architectes et intellectuels, ou les enseignements de l'italianophylie	506	(16)
Jean-Louis Cohen
1984
``The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End,'' Perspecta 21 (1984)	522	(18)
Peter Eisenman
1984
``The Overexposed City,'' from L'espace critique; translated in Zone 1--2 (1986)	540	(12)
Paul Virilio
1984
``The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design,'' Art Papers 8, no. 4 (July-August 1984); revised in Assemblage 1 (October 1986)	552	(14)
Robert Segrest
1986
``Point de folie---Maintenant l'architecture,'' from Bernard Tschumi, La Case Vide: La Villette 1985	566	(16)
Jacques Derrida
1986
Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence	582	(4)
Peter Eisenman
1986
``La Citta Nuova; Modernity and Continuity,'' Zone 1--2 (1986)	586	(28)
Sanford Kwinter
1987
``Weak Architecture,'' Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme 175 (October-December 1987); translated in de Sola-Morales, Differences (1996)	614	(10)
Ignasi de Sola-Morales
1988
``L'Esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicite,'' from Architectureproduction, ed. Beatriz Colomina and Joan Ockman	624	(18)
Beatriz Colomina
1988
``The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism,'' paper presented 1988; published in Strategies in Architectural Thinking, ed. John Whiteman, Jeffrey Kipnis, and Richard Burdett (1922)	642	(16)
Catherine Ingraham
1988
``The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel,'' paper presented 1988; published in Assemblage 8 (February 1989)	658	(18)
Mark Wigley
1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York Deconstructivist Architecture	676	(2)
1989
``Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism,'' Assemblage 8 (February 1989)	678	(26)
Mary McLeod
1989
Bibliotheque de France, Paris	704	(4)
Rem Koolhaas
1991
``/Twisting the Separatrix/,'' Assemblage 14 (April 1991)	708	(36)
Jeffrey Kipnis
1992
From The Architectual Uncanny: Essay in the modern Unhomely	744	(14)
Anthony Vidler
1992
``Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower,'' Assemblage 17 (April 1992)	758	(22)
Jennifer Bloomer
1993
``One or Several Masters?'' paper presented 1993; published in Hejduk's Chronotope, ed. K. Michael Hays (1996)	780	(22)
R. E. Somol
Index	802