Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

activities of users is a concrete one, which is to say, subjective. As a space of ‘subjects’ rather than of calculations, as a r ...

Gianni Vattimo Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo (b. 1936) has established himself as a prominent theorist of aesthetics and th ...

therefore, to discuss the state of the project, and of the architectonic project in particular, in the light of a situation that ...

be presented in the form of simultaneity. For example, one could take the terminus a quo of the birth of contemporaneity to be t ...

foundation has taken the form of historicism, which means that the rationality of reality is presented as the rational progress ...

planning of cities, nor even that there are basic natural needs, since it is increasingly absurd to try to distinguish them from ...

First and foremost, it should be underlined that the Ueberlieferung, the handing down, does not issue only from the past, but fr ...

of seeing how to bring a conscious multiplicity into effect within the construction of the work. I cannot propose a definite sol ...

‘reduced’ to being territorial markers, whereas originally they were or wished to be the incarnation of the idea in the sensible ...

possibilities which are too clearly mystical, or so it would seem. Certainly, however, this emphasis on space in the so-called ‘ ...

the notion of being—towards death in the transition from Sein und Zeit to the ontological and hermeneutic works of Heidegger’s f ...

is foregrounded both as the agent of a (new) spatial ordering, and as a point of escape toward the free vastness of the region. ...

term Wesen, or ‘to essentialize’, then it is possible to see that this question is connected to the reversal of centre and perip ...

From a Heideggerian point of view, the work of art as the occurrence of a ‘weak’ truth is understandable, in so many senses, as ...

6 Cf. H.-G.Gadamer, Truth and Method, Garrett Barden and John Cummings (trans.), 2nd edn, New York: Crossroads, 1975; repr. 1984 ...

PART III STRUCTURALISM ...

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STRUCTURALISM Structuralism is an inter-disciplinary movement that has sought to transcend the limitations of earlier ad hoc int ...

technical considerations over the question of meaning. Semiology, however, offers architects a glimpse of the full semantic pote ...

Roland Barthes French writer and critic Roland Barthes (1915–80) remains a figure difficult to categorize because of the range o ...