Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

Jean Baudrillard French sociologist Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929) has established himself as an influential and highly original the ...

to a system of surface ventilation (animation, self-regulation, information, media) and an in-depth, irreversible implosion. A m ...

Granted, the entire cultural contents of Beaubourg are anachronistic, since only an interior void could have corresponded to thi ...

surface connections chooses for its content the traditional culture of depth. Thus, an anterior order of simulacra (the one of m ...

weight threaten the building, but their adhesion and their curiosity destroy the very contents of this cultural spectacle. This ...

selections, readings, references, marks, decodings. Like consumer objects elsewhere, the cultural objects here have no other pur ...

Sure, they obey the commands of deterrence, for they have been given an object to consume, a culture to devour, a physical struc ...

or within, all this has something archaic about it in relation to the real modality of the city’s annihilation. The scenario of ...

But it’s quite another thing if we pass from the millennium of liberation and energy release, after a sort of maximal radiation, ...

system must reduce them. Not for their political or militant content, but because, non- extensible, non-explosive, non-generaliz ...

ideal ecology. It opted for hard technologies, exaggerated all dimensions, gambled on heaven and hell... Eco-architecture, eco-s ...

the wife and children, as glowing symptoms of success...everything here testifies to death having found its ideal home. THE BONA ...

Pompous Mormon symmetry. Everywhere marble: flawless, funereal (the Capitol, the organ in the Visitor Centre). Yet a Los-Angelic ...

in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer re ...

where meaning, at these heights of luxury, has finally become adornment. It is exactly the reverse here: there is no seduction, ...

Jürgen Habermas As a prominent member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, German philosopher and social theorist Jür ...

The exhibition The Other Tradition—Architecture in Munich from 1800 up to today’ offers an opportunity to consider the meaning o ...

only unifying style since the days of classicism. It has developed out of both the organic as well as rationalistic origins of a ...

type of interactions which were to mark the atmosphere of life in the big cities, described by Benjamin as overflowing with exci ...

by Haussmann, under Napoleon III. The architects played no noteworthy part in these plans. FAILURE OF HISTORICISM, MODERNISM’S A ...