Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

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Rethinking Architecture Rethinking Architecture brings together for the first time the principal writings on architecture by man ...

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Rethinking Architecture A reader in cultural theory Edited by Neil Leach London and New York ...

First published 1997 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Libra ...

CONTENTS Preface^ vii Acknowledgments^ ix ...

PART I MODERNISM Introduction xii Theodor W.Adorno Georges Bataille Walter Benjamin Ernst Bloch Siegfried Kracauer Georg Simmel ...

PREFACE The discipline of architecture has gone through something of a metamorphosis in recent years. There is evidence of a cle ...

Finally, I must express my indebtedness to Dalibor Vesely and Joseph Rykwert. I was privileged to have been taught by them whils ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editor and publishers gratefully acknowledge the following for permission to reproduce material in this book ...

Johns Hopkins University Press: Gianni Vattimo, ‘Ornament/Monument,’ The End of Modernity, trans. Jon Snyder (American rights); ...

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INTRODUCTION This volume brings together for the first time a series of well-known essays on architecture by key thinkers of the ...

to an insistent self-criticism.’^3 These sentiments could easily be readdressed to the context of architecture. As such they wou ...

Phenomenology; Structuralism; Postmodernism; and Poststructuralism. Although these categories do not cover all the key movements ...

understanding of the conditions under which these forms have been generated lifts the debate beyond the level of a discussion of ...

To go after [architecture]: not in order to attack, destroy or deroute it, to criticise or disqualify it. Rather, in order to th ...

Likewise, transgression does not deny specificity or difference. Rather it highlights and celebrates it. It reveals the differen ...

Years pass and the man still waits, growing old and increasingly blind. As he is approaching death, the man eventually asks the ...

it ‘represents in a more decisive manner how separating and connecting are only two sides of precisely the same act’. Moreover, ...