An Introduction to Architectural Theory
1968 to the Present
1. Auflage März 2011
288 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last forty years. The text surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics, and the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years, concluding with an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years.
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 architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years
* Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years
Prelude: The 1960s
Part I: 1970s:
1. Pars Destruens: 1968-1973
2. The Crisis of Meaning
3. Early Postmodernism
4. Modernism Abides
Part II: 1980s:
5. Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism
6. Traditionalism and New Urbanism
7. Gilded Age of Theory
8. Deconstruction
Part III: 1990s and Present:
9. Wake of the Storm
10. Pragmatism and Post-Criticality
11. Minimalisms
12. Sustainability and Beyond
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
David Goodman is Studio Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook.
