Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

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as work of art 133
‘Architecture’ (Bataille) 21
‘Architecture Where the Desire May Live’ (Derrida) 317, 319–24
Aristotle (Aristotelianism) 288, 319
art 16, 18, 38, 45, 125, 186, 311;
occasionality in 126–8;
purpose-free 6–9;
and space 120–4;
symbolic 152–3;
truth in 156–9
art nouveau 36
‘Art and Space’ (Heidegger) 120–4, 155–60
‘Attacks of the Castle’ (Cixous) 302, 303–7
attic 95
Augustine, St 257–8


Babel 174, 320–1
Bachelard, Gaston 84, 85–97, 270, 351
Balzac, Honoré de 34, 40
Barbier, Henri 26, 32
barricades 38–40
Barthes, Roland xv, 163, 164, 165–80, 183, 200, 202, 283
Bataille, Georges 4, 20–3
baths 373–4
Baudelaire, Charles 3, 26–8, 29, 31, 32–3, 37–8, 245, 276
Baudrillard, Jean 20, 24, 207, 208, 209–24
Bauhaus 6, 43, 47, 232
‘Beaubourg-Effect: Implosion and Deterrence’ (Baudrillard) 209, 210–18
beauty 49
‘Before the Law’ (Kafka) 300
Being 98, 121, 124, 147, 155
Bell, Daniel 239
Bellamy, Edward 264
Benjamin, Andrew xx, 283, 285–300
Benjamin, Walter 3, 13, 24–40, 41, 51, 65, 201, 209, 229, 245, 275, 276, 285
Bentham, Jeremy 360, 361–2, 364, 365
Berlage, Henrik Petrus 249
binary oppositions 163, 268–9, 382
Bloch, Ernst 4, 41–9, 159
Bonaventure Hotel (Los Angeles) 220–1, 242–6
Bosco, Henri 96
Boulez, Pierre 18
boundaries xviii–xx, 67–8, 74, 380, 382–3, 385–6, 386
Braudel, Fernand 315
bridge 65–9, 98–9, 104–7, 197
‘Bridge and Door’ (Simmel) 65, 66–9, 99
brothels 356, 375–6
Bruckner, Anton 8
building 100–1, 103, 107–9, 112, 116–17, 118, 141, 251, 256;
as ‘decorated shed’ 250, 254;
interior/exterior 252;


Index 379
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