Sources
PART I MODERNISM
Theodor Adorno
‘Functionalism Today’, trans. Jane Newman and John Smith, Oppositions, no. 17, Summer 1979,
pp. 30–41.
Georges Bataille
‘Architecture’, trans. Paul Hegarty. Original text: ‘Architecture’, Dictionnaire Critique, 1929, 2, p.
117.
‘Museum’, trans. Paul Hegarty. Original text: ‘Musée’, Dictionnaire Critique, 1930, 5, p. 300.
‘Slaughterhouse’, trans. Paul Hegarty. Original text: ‘Abattoir’, Dictionnaire Critique, 1929, 6, p.
329.
Walter Benjamin
‘On Some Motifs in Baudelaire’, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London: Fontana, 1973,
Sections 5–8, pp. 162–72.
‘Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century’, Reflections, trans. Edmund Jephcott, New York,
London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, Sections 1, 4, 5, 6; pp. 146–9; 154–62.
Ernst Bloch
‘Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament’, trans. Jane Newman and John Smith,
Oppositions, no. 17, Summer 1979, pp. 45–51.
Siegfried Kracauer
‘The Hotel Lobby’ (extract), Mass Ornament, trans. Thomas Levin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1995.
‘On Employment Exchanges: The Construction of a Space’, trans. David Frisby. Original text:
‘Über Arbeitsnachweise: Konstruktion eines Raumes’, Schriften, Band 5.2, ed. Inka Mülder-
Bach, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1990, pp. 185–92.
Georg Simmel
‘Bridge and Door’, trans. Mark Ritter, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 11 (1994), pp. 5–10.
‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’, trans. Edward Shils, Social Sciences III Selections and Selected
Readings, vol. 2, 14th ed., Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948, reprinted in On Individuality
and Social Forms, Donald Levine (ed.), Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, pp. 324–39.
PART II PHENOMENOLOGY
Gaston Bachelard
Poetics of Space (extract), trans. Maria Jolas, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, pp. 3–20.