Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

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Index


Note: numbers in bold represent many entries


Aalto, Alvar 228
Adorno, Theodor W. xiv, xvi–xx, 5–19, 41, 51, 84, 165, 225, 231–2, 236, 247, 276, 277, 285
Aesthetic Theory (Adorno) 247
aesthetic/s 18–19, 151, 152, 153;
consciousness 126, 129, 130, 131;
production 236, 240;
turn 285
Aesthetics of Architecture (Scruton) 268
Agrest, Diana 164
Altenberg, Peter 7
alternative architecture 225
‘America’ (Baudrillard) 218–24
Ando, Tadao 253
anthropological system 198–9, 202
anti-architecture 219
arcades 24, 29, 34–5, 40, 209
architect, space of 143–6;
as symbolic operator 153
architectonics 319, 333, 383, 388, 390
architectural codes, defined 190–3;
external 196–9;
varieties of 193–5
architectural difference 317
architecture, absence of 223;
as art or construction 259;
as business and culture 256;
challenge of nineteenth century to 228–30;
characteristics of 195–6;
connotative function 187, 190;
defined xii;
denotative function 185–6, 190;
discourse on xiv–xx;
four points of invariance 326–8;
as functional and symbolic 181;
of generosity 5;
and legibility of features 164, 167;
mass appeal in 195–6;
meanings and history 190;
primary/secondary functions 187–90, 203;
as representation 125;
and self-criticism xiv;
types 191, 194, 201;
and the will to live 232–3;

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