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It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Loosen, Sebastiaan (Editor), Heynickx, Rajesh, 1977- (Editor), Heynen, Hilde (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven (belgium) : Leuven University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture, Modern > 21st century.
Architecture > Philosophy.
Architecture > 20e siècle.
Architecture > 21e siècle.
Architecture > Philosophie.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Architecture, Modern
Architecture > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Meaning and effect: revisiting semiotics in architecture / André Loeckx and Hilde Heynen
  • A voice from the margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s architecture culture / Philip Goad
  • Contaminations: art, architecture, and the critical vision of Lara-Vinca Masini / Peter Lang
  • Architecture becomes programming: invisible technicians, printouts, and situated theories in the 1960s / Matthew Allen
  • Troubled dialogues: intellectuality at a crossroads at the Carrefour de l'Europe in Brussels / Sebastiaan Loosen
  • Institutionalized critique? On the re(birth) of architectural theory after modernism: ETH and MIT compared / Ole W. Fischer
  • Thinking architecture, its theory and history: a case study about Melvin Charney / Louis Martin
  • Dirtying the real: Liane Lefaivre and the architectural stalemate with emerging realities / Andrew Toland
  • Between making and acting: the inherent ambivalence of Arendtian architectural theory / Paul Holmquist
  • Critical regionalism: a not so critical theory / Carmen Popescu
  • The historiographical invention of the Soviet avant-garde: cultural politics and the return of the lost project / Ricardo Ruivo
  • Effete, Effeminate, Feminist: feminizing architecture theory / Sandra Kaji-O'Grady
  • Anthologizing post-structuralism: architecture écriture, gender, and subjectivity / Karen Burns
  • Consequences of pragmatism: a retrospect on "The pragmatist imagination" / Joan Ockman
  • A discipline in the making / Hilde Heynen.

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