Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

Basically, the American mayor’s statement revealed a general phenomenon that was just beginning to hit the capital cities as wel ...

neighbourhoods, as in the housing development near Lyon where the occupants’ ‘rate of rotation’ became so great—people staying f ...

spectators. From here on, urban architecture has to work with the opening of a new ‘technological space-time’. In terms of acces ...

If, despite the wishes of postmodern architects, the city from here on is deprived of gateway entries, it is because the urban w ...

round-the-clock live news station, he transformed his subscribers’ living space into a kind of global broadcast studio for world ...

contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that’s been broken into and emptied of its conte ...

of degradation or destruction implied in accident, aging and war—it inversely and paradoxically builds an imperceptible order, w ...

Right now, vanguard technologies, derived from the military conquest of space, are already launching homes, and perhaps tomorrow ...

dissolution of the suburbs—than in the time—understood as sequential perceptions—of urban appearances. In fact, transparency has ...

itself according to state-of-the-art technologies, whose vertiginous prowess exiles all of us from the terrestrial horizon. Neo- ...

Sources PART I MODERNISM Theodor Adorno ‘Functionalism Today’, trans. Jane Newman and John Smith, Oppositions, no. 17, Summer 19 ...

Martin Heidegger ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter, New York: Harper & Row ...

Fredric Jameson ‘The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, London: Verso, ...

Selected Bibliography of Major Writings PART I MODERNISM Theodor Adorno The Dialectic of the Enlightenment (1947) (with Max Hork ...

On Individuality and Social Forms, Donald Levine (ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. On Women, Sexuality and Love ...

Henri Lefebvre Everyday Life in the Modern World, trans. Sacha Rabinovitch, London: Allen Lane, 1971. The Critique of Everyday L ...

Broadbent, Geoffrey, Bunt, Richard and Jencks, Charles (eds), Signs, Symbols and Architecture, Chichester: Wiley, 1980. Gottdien ...

The Postmodern Condition (1988), trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Brian Massumi, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press; Manchest ...

Of Grammatology (1967), trans. Gayatri Spivak, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Writing and Differenc ...

Index Note: numbers in bold represent many entries Aalto, Alvar 228 Adorno, Theodor W. xiv, xvi–xx, 5–19, 41, 51, 84, 165, 225, ...