Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

capitalism, they in turn did not anticipate it without also warding it off. They do not cross this new threshold. Thus it is nec ...

Jacques Derrida French philosopher Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) has had a considerable impact on the world of architecture. On the ...

‘Choral Works’. In characteristic fashion Derrida plays on this term and draws out its various ‘differals’ of meaning. ARCHITECT ...

is ‘on the way’. ‘On the move towards language’ (Heidegger), on the way to reaching itself. The way is not a method, that must b ...

to conceive for itself the idea of construction. One could say that there is nothing more architectural than deconstruction but ...

architecture there is an imitation of the ‘Riβ’, of the engraving, the action of ripping. This has to be associated with writing ...

JD All the questions we have raised so far point to the question of doctrine and that can only be placed in a political context. ...

Maintenant, the word will not flutter like the banner of the moment, it will not introduce burning questions: What about archite ...

which, no longer precisely or simply falling into the domain of meaning, would be intimately linked to something like madness [l ...

naturalized architecture is bequeathed to us: we inhabit it, it inhabits us, we think it is destined for habitation, and it is n ...

Despite appearances, this religious or political memory, this historicism, has not deserted architecture. Modern architecture re ...

architectural meaning, as it has been bequeathed to us and as we still inhabit it. We should not avoid the issue: if this config ...

powers of ‘attraction’. All of this answers to a programme of transfers, transformations or permutations over which these extern ...

undoubtedly undergoes this trial of the monumental moment; however, it inscribes it, as well, in a series of experiences. As its ...

reassuring unity of its meaning. Tschumi’s folies no doubt play on this ‘alteration’ and superimpose, against common sense, comm ...

installed, identified in a continuum. Divisible themselves, these cells also point towards instants of rupture, discontinuity, d ...

(the Parc, the institution) be structured as a reassembling system. The red point of folies is the focus of this dissociated spa ...

the spacing of the grid. But this point of view does not see; it is blind to what happens in the folie. For if we consider it ab ...

narrative matrices, to sound-tracks and image-tracks (as I write this, I think of La Folie du Jour by Blanchot, and of the deman ...

diagnose the paranoia of some Nietzsche of modern architecture has mistaken the address. First I propose to draw attention to th ...