Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory

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Pub. Date: 1997-03-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Rethinking Architectureoffers a refreshing take on the statement of architecture -- what we mean by what we build. Brought together for the first time, this collection of core writings on architecture by many of the key philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth century reconsiders many of the accepted tenets of architectural theory from a broader cultural perspective. Rethinking Architecturerepresents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences around architecture. Neil Leach lays out five sections composing the predominant schools of twentieth century thought. Sectional introductions link important ideas and themes, and surveys of the lives and works of each theorist preface their writings.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(2)
Acknowledgments ix(4)
Introduction xiii
PART I MODERNISM 6(80)
Theodor W. Adorno
Functionalism Today
6(15)
Georges Bataille
Architecture
21(1)
Slaughterhouse
22(1)
Museum
22(3)
Walter Benjamin
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
25(8)
Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
33(10)
Ernst Bloch
Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament
43(10)
Siegfried Kracauer
The Hotel Lobby
53(6)
On Employment Agencies: The Construction of a Space
59(7)
Georg Simmel
Bridge and Door
66(3)
The Metropolis and Mental Life
69(17)
PART II PHENOMENOLOGY 86(80)
Gaston Bachelard
Poetics of Space (extract)
86(14)
Martin Heidegger
Building, Dwelling, Thinking
100(9)
...Poetically Man Dwells...
109(10)
The Origin of the Work of Art (extracts)
119(2)
Art and Space
121(5)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative
126(13)
Henri Lefebvre
The Production of Space (extracts)
139(9)
Gianni Vattimo
The End of Modernity, The End of The Project?
148(7)
Ornament/Monument
155(11)
PART III STRUCTURALISM 166(44)
Roland Barthes
Semiology and the Urban
166(6)
The Eiffel Tower
172(10)
Umberto Eco
Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture
182(20)
How an Exposition Exposes Itself
202(8)
PART IV POSTMODERNISM 210(76)
Jean Baudrillard
The Beaubourg-effect: Implosion and Deterrence
210(8)
America
218(9)
Jurgen Habermas
Modern and Postmodern Architecture
227(11)
Fredric Jameson
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
238(9)
The Constraints of Postmodernism (extract)
247(8)
Is Space Political?
255(16)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Domus and the Megalopolis
271(15)
PART V POSTSTRUCTURALISM 286(105)
Andrew Benjamin
Eisenman and the Housing of Tradition
286(17)
Helene Cixous
Attacks of the Castle
303(6)
Gilles Deleuze
Postscript on the Societies of Control
309(4)
City/State (with Felix Guattari)
313(6)
Jacques Derrida
Architecture Where the Desire May Live (Interview)
319(5)
Point de Folie - maintenant l'architecture
324(12)
Why Peter Eisenman Writes Such Good Books
336(14)
Michel Foucault
Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias
350(6)
Panopticism (extract)
356(11)
Space, Knowledge and Power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow)
367(14)
Paul Virilio
The Overexposed City
381(10)
Sources 391(4)
Selected Bibliography of Major Writings 395(8)
Index 403

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