Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

Fais vo ir, en déjouant la ruse, O République, à ces pervers Ta grande face de Méduse Au milieu de rouges éclairs. Workers’ song ...

epoch not only dreams the next, but also, in dreaming, strives toward the moment of waking. It bears its end in itself and unfol ...

Ernst Bloch German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was a theorist of the avant-garde and a philosopher of expressionism. Wit ...

FORMATIVE EDUCATION, ENGINEERING FORM, ORNAMENT PART ONE We also take on the form of our surroundings. Not only does the man mak ...

cancerous ornament. Indeed, every ornament became suspect, was condemned for being scabrous and cancerous. This bolstered a gene ...

humanitarian planning or just regulation of work has yet been able to manage even the chaos of the traffic, not to mention the t ...

mutatis mutandis, of the exultation upon ornament’s death and the synthetically manufactured lack of imagination. And so, enough ...

But now: is this temporal coincidence of ice and fire mere chance? In general, after all, there does exist a connection between ...

PART SIX Must it remain thus? Will disassociated formation^22 never again become allied? Must architecture alone stop being an a ...

beautiful than the beautiful itself’. This statement, made by a man who was then still young, appeared in what was a revolutiona ...

9‘Functional’ here is nützlich, i.e. ‘practical, useful’. 10 ‘Functionalism’ again Zweckform. 11 The phrase is taken from Johann ...

Siegfried Kracauer German cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) is known principally for his later writings on film t ...

1 Siegfried Kracauer, ‘The Mass Ornament’ in The Mass Ornament, Thomas Y.Levin (trans.), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Pr ...

Since the determining characteristic of the lower region is its lack of tension, the togetherness in the hotel lobby has no mean ...

whereas the decorations of the church pews are born from the tension that accords them a revelatory meaning. As a result, the ch ...

concepts conceived within the relation; they rob the ungraspable given of its possible content, instead of raising it to the lev ...

Death in Venice Thomas Mann formulates this as follows: ‘A solemn stillness reigned in the room, of the sort that is the pride o ...

continuous light illuminates nothing but mannequins. It is the coming and going of unfamiliar people who have become empty forms ...

put an end to the false aesthetic situation shrouding that nothing. Just as the formerly experienced higher mystery pushes those ...

The employment agency stands in the same relationship to the rule governed office as the financial support for the unemployed st ...