Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory

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Pub. Date: 1997-03-21
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
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
PART I MODERNISM
Functionalism Today
6(15)
Theodor W. Adorno
Architecture
21(1)
Georges Bataille
Slaughterhouse
22(1)
Museum
22(3)
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
25(8)
Walter Benjamin
Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
33(10)
Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament
43(10)
Ernst Bloch
The Hotel Lobby
53(6)
Siegfried Kracauer
On Employment Agencies: The Construction of a Space
59(7)
Bridge and Door
66(3)
Georg Simmel
The Metropolis and Mental Life
69(17)
PART II PHENOMENOLOGY
Poetics of Space (extract)
86(14)
Gaston Bachelard
Building, Dwelling, Thinking
100(9)
Martin Heidegger
...Poetically Man Dwells...
109(10)
The Origin of the Work of Art (extracts)
119(2)
Art and Space
121(5)
The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative
126(13)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Production of Space (extracts)
139(9)
Henri Lefebvre
The End of Modernity, The End of The Project?
148(7)
Gianni Vattimo
Ornament/Monument
155(11)
PART II STRUCTURALISM
Semiology and the Urban
166(6)
Roland Barthes
The Eiffel Tower
172(10)
Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture
182(20)
Umberto Eco
How an Exposition Exposes Itself
202(8)
PART IV POSTMODERNISM
The Beaubourg-effect: Implosion and Deterrence
210(8)
Jean Baudrillard
America
218(9)
Modern and Postmodern Architecture
227(11)
Jurgen Habermas
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
238(9)
Fredric Jameson
The Constraints of Postmodernism (extract)
247(8)
Is Space Political?
255(16)
Domus and the Megalopolis
271(15)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
PART V POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Eisenman and the Housing of Tradition
286(17)
Andrew Benjamin
Attacks of the Castle
303(6)
Helene Cixous
Postscript on the Societies of Control
309(4)
Gilles Deleuze
City/State (with Felix Guattari)
313(6)
Architecture Where the Desire May Live (Interview)
319(5)
Jacques Derrida
Point de Folie -- maintenant l'architecture
324(12)
Why Peter Eisenman Writes Such Good Books
336(14)
Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias
350(6)
Michael Foucault
Panopticism (extract)
356(11)
Space, Knowledge and Power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow)
367(14)
The Overexposed City
381(10)
Paul Virilio
Sources 391(4)
Selected Bibliography of Major Writings 395(8)
Index 403

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