Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory

✍ Scribed by Neil Leach

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 413
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This invaluable reader brings together the core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the Twentieth Century.

This careful selection of the very best theoretical writings offers a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethinks many of the accepted tenets of architectural theory from a broader cultural perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

BookCover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Part I Modernism......Page 23
Theodor W.Adorno......Page 26
Georges Bataille......Page 41
Walter Benjamin......Page 44
Ernst Bloch......Page 63
Siegfried Kracauer......Page 72
Georg Simmel......Page 85
Part II Phenomenology......Page 100
Gaston Bachelard......Page 103
Martin Heidegger......Page 116
Hans-Georg-Gadamer......Page 142
Henri Lefebvre......Page 154
Ganni Vattimo......Page 162
Part III Structuralism......Page 176
Roland Barthes......Page 180
Umberto Eco......Page 195
Part IV Postmordenism......Page 218
Jean Baudrillard......Page 221
Jürgen Habermas......Page 236
Fredric Jameson......Page 246
Jean-François Lyotard......Page 278
Part V Poststructuralism......Page 288
Andrew Benjamin......Page 291
Hélène Cixous......Page 308
Gilles Deleuze......Page 314
Jacques Derrida......Page 322
Michel Foucault......Page 351
Paul Virilio......Page 380
Sources......Page 391
Selected Bibliography of major writings......Page 394
Index......Page 400

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