Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries: Knowledge Transfers since The 1960s

✍ Scribed by Rajesh Heynickx, Ricardo Costa Agarez, Elke Couchez

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted.Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. Eleven original essays explore a variety of themes and contexts, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial and disciplinary boundaries - whether through the international circulation of ideas, transdisciplinary exchanges, or transfers from design practice to theory and back again. Dissecting the frictions, transformations and resistances that mark these journeys, the essays in this book reflect upon the myriad routes that architectural knowledge has taken while developing into architectural theory. They critically enquire the interstices - geographical, temporal and epistemological - that lie beyond fixed narratives. They show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction: The Mobile Landscape of Post-war Architectural Thought
Knowledge on the move
Translations and appropriations
Imprints and undercurrents
Vehicles
References
PART ONE Translations and Appropriations
CHAPTER ONE Deconstruction and Architecture: Translation as a Matter of Speculative Theory
Deconstruction as a concept in motion
Translation as a way of investigation
Derrida’s Haunt as a symptomatic case of investigation and translation
Derrida’s Haunt as an experiment of (un-)translation
And, as a conclusion
Notes
References
CHAPTER TWO Gehry’s Lou Ruvo Center in Las Vegas as a Housing Critique
Theory in built form?
A discipline in crisis
Housing as architecture
Theoretical terrains of knowledge
Conclusion: housing as premise
Notes
References
CHAPTER THREE ‘Boomerang Effect’: The Repercussions of Critical Regionalism in 1980s Greece
Introduction
The origins of critical regionalism in 1980s Greece
Inward-looking repercussions
The boomerang effect
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
CHAPTER FOUR The Autonomy of Theory: Tendenzen – Neuere Architekturim Tessin, ETH Zurich, 1975
Between built architecture and its representation
Black cats in the night-time
Catalogue as manifesto
From Tendenza to Tendenzen
The flight of theory
Difference through repetition
Notes
References
PART TWO Imprints and Undercurrents
CHAPTER FIVE Royston Landau and the Research Programmes of Architecture
Introduction
Architecture and philosophy in the twentieth century
Karl Popper and the architects
Enter Stanford Anderson
Enter Stanford Anderson
Exploring the ‘Context for Decision Making’
Anderson on modern traditions
Landau on induction and design method
Enter Imre Lakatos
Interlude: the future of practice
Lessons from Lakatos
Programmes in ‘History and Theory’
Coda
Notes
References
CHAPTER SIX Theoretical A/gnosticisms: Paul Tillich, Colin Rowe and the Theology of Architecture
Tillich
Rowe
Gnostic/agnostic
Notes
References
PART THREE Vehicles
CHAPTER SEVEN Cedric Price’s Chats: Orality and the Production of Architectural Theory
Chat as genre: orality and oral literature
Chat as epistemology: cybernetics and conversation theory
Chat as performance: popular theatre and the art of improvisation
Conclusion: orality, autonomy and architectural theory
Notes
References
CHAPTER EIGHT Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorization of Oral History in Architecture
The hot breath of the architect down the historian’s neck
Oral history and architectural authorship
Oral history and architectural knowledge
Oral history, architectural affections and confections
Oral history beyond myth- making
Notes
References
CHAPTER NINE Abandoning the Plan
Introduction
Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
References
CHAPTER TEN Deltiology as History: Informal Communication as Praxis
Notes
References
CHAPTER ELEVEN Theorizing from the South: The Seminar of Latin American Architecture
Introduction
Forging a new path
The central themes: region, identity and technolog
Contested knowledge
Notes
References
INDEX