Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

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‘Modern and Postmodern Architecture’ (Habermas) 227–35
modernism xiii–xvi, 238;
defined 3–4;
essays 5–79
Monet, Claude 33
money economy 71–3
monument 129, 133–4, 139–43, 159–60, 344, 385;
paradoxical 179
monumentality 153, 159
Moore, Charles 242
Moore, Henry 47
Morris, William 7, 229
Motionless Child 87, 88–9
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 6–7
Munich style 258
museum 214
‘Museum’ (Bataille) 20, 22–3
music 6–7, 8, 14–15, 128, 135


neighbourhood 167–71, 177–8, 210, 238, 253, 384
neo-historicism 225, 228, 234
Neue Sachlichkeit movement 5, 6, 10, 11, 17, 19, 44, 50, 59
Neues Bauen (New Building) 227, 232, 233
New Left 236
New York 218–20
Nietzsche, Friedrich 70, 147, 150, 154, 296, 337, 343
Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo) 167, 175
‘Notre-Dame de Rheims’ (Bataille) 20
Nouvelle Critique 169


objects, inside/outside 178–9;
as useful 17–18;
as useless 173–4
occasionality 125–7
‘Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heteropias’ (Foucault) 348, 350–6
office buildings 264–5
‘On Employment Exchanges: The Construction of a Space’ (Kracauer) 59–64
‘On Some Motifs in Baudelaire’ (Benjamin) 24, 25–32
‘The Ontological Foundations of the Occasional and the Decorative’ (Gadamer) 126–36, 147
The Order of Things (Foucault) 348, 377
‘Origin of the Work of Art’ (Heidegger) 119–20, 155–60, 322
ornament 5, 6–11, 16, 44, 46–9, 135–6, 147, 153, 158–60, 250;
as part of presentation 125;
see also decoration
‘Ornament/Monument’ (Vattimo) 147, 155–60
Orwell, George 277
Other 335
‘The Overexposed City’ (Virilio) 380, 381–90


Paik, Nam June 390
‘Panopticism’ (Foucault) 356–67


Index 386
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