Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

aesthetic of Critical Regionalism would presumably have to insist on the synaesthetic or structural-relational sensoriality of e ...

to stage this aesthetic as a strategy for somehow including and defusing technological modernity, for outsmarting it in the very ...

with a view toward resisting the standardizations of a henceforth global late capitalism and corporatism, whose ‘vernacular’ is ...

underscores one of the originalities of multinational capitalism today in a way that tends to problematize the assumptions of th ...

this is complicated by the remembrance that at least two different meanings are deployed when we use the word politics. One is p ...

building/city opposition, but only part of it; or perhaps it is subsumed under that in some uneven way, since the city also incl ...

cutting-edge superiority of the former ‘little clan’, now become the most advanced salon in all of Paris: ‘In the first years of ...

frustrating position that we would at least like to try to transcend, and my suggestions now will be little more than that clums ...

from the space of what already is all around it (we have just seen how Venturi’s irony opens the door onto precisely that slight ...

take the form of the unanswerable question of whether film is a kind of language (even to assert that it is like a language—or l ...

largest conceivable object of study has come to be understood (and is reinforced, rather than dispelled, by the attempt to inven ...

But there are also more obvious and immediate ways in which space can be considered to be ideological: indeed, one of the most i ...

be allowed to see me (as James Hall pointed out, the distances felt to constitute a violation of my person or, on the other hand ...

something else: yet architecture drawn to those strategic specifics would presumably not be a very cheerful place to live in at ...

physical and tactile values, and to eschew the dissonances of what exceeds or maims or diminishes the human frame: what administ ...

are middle-class envies that survive in the general form of culture after the bourgeois revolution itself). It becomes then a li ...

PART THREE The business of identifying ideologemes is a crucial one; it is a necessary part of politics (although not all of it) ...

Jean-François Lyotard French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (b. 1924) is the author of one of the key texts on postmodernism. ...

willow, horse chestnut, lime, a clump of pines. Dovecots, swallows. The child raises its eyes. Say it’s seven o’clock in the eve ...

speak, tell stories, will have told stories, will have stories told about it, will have had stories told about it. The common wo ...