Constructing a New Agenda Architectural Theory 1993-2009

Name: Constructing a New Agenda Architectural Theory 1993-2009
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ISBN: 9781568988597

ISBN-10: 1568988591

ISBN-13: 9781568988597

Edition: 2010

Authors: A. Krista Sykes, K. Michael Hays, K. Michael Hays

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Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s propractice movement, with its mandate to focus on the realities of building, has shifted architectural theory away from utopian ideals and heavy-handed cultural critiques toward the realities of architecture and building. This transition renders theory's immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice. Constructing a New Agenda offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era. In this long-awaited follow-up to our critically acclaimed and best-selling…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.22" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

A. Krista Sykesnbsp;holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Theory and History from Harvard University. She is the author of Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture and was Managing Editor of thenbsp;Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

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. 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.



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction


Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant, and the Supple (1993)



Charter of the New Urbanism (1996): Congress for the new urbanism


Thoughts on the Everyday (1997)



Mach 1 (and Other Mystic Visitations) (1997)



A New Pragmatism? (1998)



The Rural Studio (1998)



Field Conditions (1999)



Junkspace (2000)



The Cunning of Cosmetics (2000)



Green Questionnaire (2001)



Scale and Span in a Global Digital World (2001)



Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism (2002)



Design Intelligence (2002)



From Principles to Practices: Creating a Sustaining Architecture for the Twenty-first Century (2003)



Boundaries/Networks (2003)



Future City (2003)



Architecture and the Virtual: Towards a New Materiality (2004)



No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture…and Its Limitations (2004/5)



Architecture's Expanded Field (2005)



Architecture by Numbers (2005)



Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism (2005)



Technology, Place, and Nonmodern Regionalism (2005)



Raised to Observe: Glenn Murcutt (2005)



On Criticality (2006)



Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation (2006)



Introduction to Atlas of Novel Tectonics (2006)



Practice Makes Perfect (2006/7)



Ru(m)inations: The Haunts of Contemporary Architecture (2008)



Afterword



Contributors' Biographies


Selected Bibliography


Index