Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

14 Michel Foucault, ‘Preface to Transgression’ in Donald Bouchard (ed.), Language, Counter- Memory, Practice, Donald Bouchard an ...

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PART I MODERNISM ...

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MODERNISM Modernism is the aesthetic practice of modernity, a period which is almost impossible to define. For some modernity be ...

Theodor W.Adorno German philosopher and musicologist Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) was a leading member of the Frankfurt Institute ...

FUNCTIONALISM TODAY I would first like to express my gratitude for the confidence shown me by Adolf Arndt in his invitation to s ...

Judgment, Kant grounded this norm philosophically in the formula of ‘pur-posiveness without a purpose’ (Zweckmässigkeit ohne Zwe ...

restorative element, not unlike that of the individualization of crafts, has since become equally clear. To this day, they are s ...

social reality. Something would be purposeful here and now only if it were so in terms of the present society. Yet, certain irra ...

ornament echoes an often openly expressed rage against moral delinquency: ‘But the man of our time who, out of inner compulsion, ...

technological world, free from the shame of work. The second motif points beyond the commercial world. For Loos it takes the for ...

The poles of the contradiction are revealed in two concepts, which seem mutually exclusive: handicraft and imagination. Loos exp ...

case, I would imagine that the retrospective infatuation with the aura of the socially doomed craftsman is quite compatible with ...

the others can be reduced. It is here that the insight furnished by philosophy that no thought can lead to an absolute beginning ...

the subject. Architecture would thus attain a higher standard the more intensely it reciprocally mediated the two extremes—forma ...

its own memory, forgetting that it is only there for others, it becomes a fetish, a self- conscious and thereby relativized abso ...

motive. Since what is useful and beneficial to man, cleansed of human domination and exploitation, would be correct, nothing is ...

opposite must be the case in true aesthetics. It must absorb precisely those objections which it once raised in principle agains ...

5 Kunstgewerbe carries perhaps more seriousness than ‘arts and crafts’. It covers the range of the applied arts. 6 The word Hand ...