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Martin Heidegger
‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter, New York:
Harper & Row, 1971, pp. 143–61.
‘...Poetically Man Dwells...’, Poetry, Language, Thought, pp. 211–29.
‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ (extracts), Poetry, Language, Thought, pp. 41–3, 58–60.
‘Art and Space’, trans. Charles Siebert, Man and World, 1973, Fall 6, pp. 3–8.


Hans-Georg Gadamer
‘The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative’, Truth and Method, London:
Sheed and Ward, pp. 127–42.


Henri Lefebvre
The Production of Space, trans. David Nicholson-Smith, London: Blackwell Publishers, 1991, pp.
220–6, 360–3.


Gianni Vattimo
‘The End of Modernity, The End of The Project?’, trans. David Webb, Journal of Philosophy and
the Visual Arts, Academy Editions, pp. 74–7.
‘Ornament/Monument’, The End of Modernity, trans. Jon Snyder, Polity, pp. 79–89.


PART III STRUCTURALISM


Roland Barthes
‘Semiology and the Urban’, The City and the Sign, M.Gottdiener and A.Lagopoulos (eds), New
York: Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 88–98 (with minor amendments).
‘The Eiffel Tower’, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, trans. Richard Howard, New York:
Hill & Wang, 1979, pp. 3–17.


Umberto Eco
‘Functionalism and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture’, The City and The Sign, M. Gottdiener
and A.Lagopoulos (eds), New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1986, pp. 56–85.
‘How an Exposition Exposes Itself’, Travels in Hyperreality, trans. William Weaver, London: Pan
Books, 1987, pp. 296–9.


PART IV POSTMODERNISM


Jean Baudrillard
‘The Beaubourg-Effect: Implosion and Deterrence’, trans. R.Krauss, A Michelson, October, 20, pp.
3–13.
‘America’, Simulacra and Simulations, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser, Michigan: Univ. of Michigan
Press, 1984, pp. 12–13, 91–2; America, trans. Chris Turner, London: Verso, 1988, pp. 2–3, 16–
18, 30–1, 59–60, 123–5.


Jürgen Habermas
‘Modern and Post-Modern Architecture’, trans. Helen Tsoskounglou, 9H, No. 4, 1982, pp. 9–14.


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