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2 Architecture Theory Since 1968, K. Michael Hays, MIT Press, 2000, , , 807 pages. 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 Sol?-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Frank Gehry, J?rgen 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 P?rez-G?mez, Jos? 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.. Architectural Theory: Le Corbusier's legacy : principles of..., Volume 2, David Smith Capon, 1999,, 456 pages. The two volumes of Architectural Theory bring together the fundamental elements of architecture and present them in a new and accessible format. The books define the areas of... Archaeologies of the Future The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Fredric Jameson, 2005, Philosophy, 431 pages. In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful... Curating Architecture and the City, Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara, Apr 16, 2009, Architecture, 258 pages. Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical... Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis, Robin Francis Rhodes, 1995, Architecture, 218 pages. Examines the several buildings making up the Acropolis as a group, or narrative.. A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze, 1987, Philosophy, 610 pages. Suggests an open system of psychological exploration to cut through accepted norms of morality, language, and politics. Architecture's Desire Reading the Late Avant-garde, K. Michael Hays, 2010, Architecture, 192 pages. Theorizes an architectural ethos of extreme self-reflection and finality from a Lacanian perspective.. Rethinking Architecture A Reader in Cultural Theory, Neil Leach, Mar 6, 1997, Architecture, 432 pages. Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built... Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture, Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf, Aug 5, 1997,, 312 pages. This essential compendium presents more than 150 key arguments by major architectural philosophers and gurus of today and outlines the numerous developments that have taken... The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Jan 1, 1965, Architecture, 112 pages. One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the

3 Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations... Oppositions Reader Selected Essays , K. Michael Hays, Nov 1, 1998, Architecture, 701 pages. A collection of essays from 26 issues of "Oppositions", this text presents contributions from architects, theorists and historians such as Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhom, Leon Krier... Constructing a New Agenda Architechtural Theory , Krista Sykes, Mar 31, 2010, Architecture, 511 pages. "This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt... Modern Architectural Theory A Historical Survey, , Harry Francis Mallgrave, Apr 18, 2005, Architecture, 503 pages. Examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. Explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to... Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture An Anthology of Architectural Theory , Kate Nesbitt, Mar 1, 1996, Architecture, Modern, 606 pages. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last... Theories and history of architecture, Manfredo Tafuri, Jul 23, 1980, Architecture, 324 pages. An expert on architectural history suggests criteria for evaluating designs and indicates the concepts which link modern architecture to the past. Scope of Total Architecture, Walter Gropius, 1954,, 185 pages.. The Anti-Rationalists And The Rationalists, Sir James Maude Richards, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Dennis Sharp, 2000, Architecture, 232 pages. The authors conduct a stimulating debate between prestigious architectural critics in this encyclopedic volume of comprehensive summaries of ideas that is ideal for architects... Oppositions, Volume 9,, 1977,,.. 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. "Hays has done architectural discourse a great service... this collection insistently raises important

4 questions and helps us elucidate problems that might not have otherwise occurred to us." John Biln, Architecture"If his masterwork becomes universally adopted by schools of architecture, Hays may yet reverse the current situation where it is rare to find two architects in the same room who have read anything in common at all." Isabel Allen, Architects Journal 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. I'm a graduate student in architecture, and for a theory course we read selections from this book, and two other similar theory anthologies, Kate Nesbitt's "Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture," and Niel Leach's "Rethinking Architecture." All books attempt to do roughly the same thing, and I have to say the Hays (this one) was the one I got the least out of. I'll start with one minor criticism, which wouldn't condemn the book, but is extremely infuriating: the page numbers are printed on the inside upper corners of the pages near the spine, not the outside upper corners as is standard practice in books. This makes it difficult to flip through and find what you're looking for, and is just sort of a mind-bogglingly idiotic thing to do. Compounding the problem, many pages are simply not numbered! "The concept of architecture is itself an inhabited constructum, a heritage wich comprehends us even before we could submit it to thought. Certain invariables remain, constant, through all the mutations of architecture. Impassable, imperturbable, an axiomatic traverses the whole history of architecture. An axiomatic, that is to say, an organized ensemble of fundamental and always presupposed evaluations. This hierarchy has fixed itself in stone; henceforth, it informs the entirety of social space." "The combination of the system theory of the urban realm with its dynamic interpretation as a pressurized field gives rise to an assembly language based on impregnation, with system elements existing simultaneously, and at least virutally, everywhere, emerging to actualization only within nodes (conjunctions) of mutually interfering systems." "This suggests the idea of architecture as "writing" as opposed to architecture as image. What is being "written" is not the object itself - its mass and volume - but the act of massing. This idea gives a metaphoric body to the act of architecture. It then signals its reading through an other system of signs, called traces. Traces are not the be read literally, since the have no other value than to signal the idea that three is a reading event and that reading should take place; trace signals the idea to read. Thus a trace is a partial or fragmentary signal; it has no objecthood." They are not all quite like that of course, but most will not find this 'easy' reading. Learning to read english like this is a skill that takes some time to develop. Hays's little blurbs preceding each writer are decent enough, grounding you a little before you take on the selection, but they are not spectacular. This is a great book for students and professionals alike. As a collogue once said, "A Hayes book is like buying a greatest hits CD, all the good things are there". Hayes compilation saves time by retrieving the most influential articles since 1968 and places them in one place, most with a preface to the article. Must have for any student. Pages are also east to underline and annotate in the margins. Each successive wave of theorization about architecture contains similar elements of concern and patterns of approach, each multivalent through time or the pen of the author. Hayes gathers the contentious groups and individuals who have jumped into the fray of Architectural Theory and presents them neatly, their most salient essays all within one binding. Form- Spacious margins mean smaller text, means savings in printing, means difficult to read. Small

5 ,grey fonts, again, translate into savings in print- very difficult for the reader. Not all pages have numbering. Why is that? Go figure. For example from p.329 to p.337 no numbering and not a single image to try and explain this bad design. This occurs often. abstract aesthetic Aldo Rossi analysis archi architects architecture theory articulation attempt avant-garde Barthes Bauhaus become Bernard Tschumi building century Charles Jencks classical codes Colin Rowe collage concept construction context Corbusier criticism critique culture defined dialectic discourse elements essay existence experience fact formal Foucault function Gandelsonas geometric Graves's Gregotti human idea ideal ideology Italian Italian architecture language linguistic logic Manfredo Tafuri meaning metaphor Michel Foucault modern architecture Modern Movement monument myth nature non-design notion object operation opposition Peter Eisenman planning political position possible postmodernism practice present problem production question rational realism reality reference relation relationship representation Robert Venturi Roland Barthes role Semiotics sense signifying social socialist realism society space spatial specific structure symbolic tecture Tendenza theoretical tion tradition trans transformation ture typology urban utopia Vittorio Gregotti York 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 , 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.