Introduction to Architectural Theory 1968 to the Present

Name: Introduction to Architectural Theory 1968 to the Present
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ISBN: 9781405180627

ISBN-10: 1405180625

ISBN-13: 9781405180627

Edition: 2011

Authors: Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman

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A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval. The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last forty years surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 3/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prelude: The 1960s


Technology and Ecology


Social Underpinnings of Modernism


1968



1970s



Pars Destruens: 1968-1973


Venturi and Scott Brown


Rossi and Tafuri


The Milan Triennale


The IAUS and the New York Five



The Crisis of Meaning


Semiotics and Architecture


Five on Five


Gray and White


Variations on a Theme



Early Postmodernism


The Language of Postmodernism


Consummation in Venice


European Counterpoints



Modernism Abides


The Chicago High-Rise


German Engineering


British Renaissance


Post-Metabolism in Japan


The Special Case of Alexander



1980s



Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism


Postmodernism Further Defined


Postmodernism Opposed


Critical Regionalism and Phenomenology


Mï¿½rida and Venice



Traditionalism and New Urbanism


The Prince of Architecture


The Paternoster Controversy


Toward a New Urbanism



Gilded Age of Theory


Poststructural Theory


Poststructural Architecture


Eisemnan and Tschumi



Deconstruction


Postmodernism Undefined


Gehry


The 68ers Come of Age


"…a devious architecture…"



1990s and Present



Wake of the Storm


Fragments of Fragments


From Derrida to Deleuze


Geometry and Autonomy


The End of the Figure: Manipulated Grounds


Form without Rhetoric



Pragmatism and Post-Criticality


OMA


The Orange Revolution


Post-Criticality



Minimalisms


Materiality and Effects


Neo-modernism


Phenomenological Architecture



Sustainability and Beyond


The Green Movement


McDonough and Yeang


Green Urbanism


Biophilic Design


Neuroaesthetics


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index