Architecture Theory since 1968
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262581884 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 824 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Woa! Gavin Farrell I'm a graduate student in architecture, and for a theory course we read selections from this book, and two other similar theory anthologies, Kate Nesbitt's "Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture," and Niel Leach's "Rethinking Architecture." All books attempt to do roughly the same thing, and I have to say the Hays (th. Chris Sullivan said No House of Cards. I praise Michael Hayes for his succinct and accurate notation and massive inter-article references. This text is the bible of a discipline that ostensibly began in the twentieth century, as self-conscious writing began to absorb architecture as a theme or subject.Each successive wave of theorization about architecture co. "Heavy Reading" according to Ko Wibowo. I expect this book to be in the line of Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrad but I found that this book is much heavier both literally and theoretically. While Conrad's book is easy to read and full of practical design ideologies, this book, on the other hand, ventures into deep philosop
M. In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes -- post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric -- has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.ContributorsDiana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Archizoom, George Baird, Jennifer Bloomer, Massimo Cacciari, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Alan Colquhoun, Maurice Culot, Jacques Derrida, Ignasi de Solá-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Miche
He is the author, among other books, of Modern Architecture and the Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press. K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art.
If his masterwork becomes universally adopted by schools of architecture, Hays may yet reverse the current situation where it is rare to find two architects in the same room who have read anything in common at all. (John Biln Architecture) . (Isabel Allen Architects Journal)Hays has done architectural discourse a great servicethis collection insistently raises important questions and helps us elucidate problems that might not have otherwise occurred to us