This Thing Called Theory

✍ Scribed by Teresa Stoppani (editor), Giorgio Ponzo (editor), George Themistokleous (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Series: Critiques: Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities 12
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. This Thing Called Theory Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George Themistokleous Part 1: Theories and Histories 2. Manfredo Tafuri and the Death of Architecture Marco De Michelis 3. Theories and History of Architecture (museums) Sergio M. Figueiredo 4. Architecture In/Out of the Boudoir? The autonomy of architecture and the architecture of autonomy Ole W. Fischer 5. Repositioning - Before Theory Kyle Miller Part 2: Between History and Philosophy 6. Which "Humanism"? On the Italian Theory of Architecture, 1951-1969 Amir Djalali 7. Philosophical Thinking as Political Praxis: Giorgio Agamben and inoperative architecture Camillo Boano 8. Affective Encounters Amidst Feminist Futures in Architecture? Helene Frichot 9. Repositioning - The After(s) and the End(s) of Theory Deborah Hauptmann Part 3: Beyond the Image 10. Drawing Jerusalem. Notes on Hans Bol's Jerusalem, with Christ and the Good Shepherd (1575) Andrew Benjamin 11. Architectural Drawing: architecture's speculative visual history Desley Luscombe 12. God's Eye View Adam Jasper Part 4: Critical Displays 13. Aktion 507: Politics Become Theory Become Praxis Florian Kossak 14. Architecture and the Neo-avant-garde Michael Chapman 15. Exhibits That Matter: Material Gestures with Theoretical Stakes Maarten Liefooghe 16. Repositioning - This Think Called Crit ... Brian Hatton Part 5: Theories of Things 17. Ready, Steady, Cook with Bergson, Plato and Gordon Matta-Clark Stephen Walker 18. Pragmatics: Towards a Theory of Things Gerry Adler 19. Expendability of Life and Technology: Architecture's Thing and the Thingness of Theory Ivana Wingham Part 6: The Transactions of Architecture 20. Architecture and the Promise of Post-capitalism Anthony Burke 21. Domestic, Production, Debt: For a Theory of the Informal Platon Issaias 22. White, Wide, and Scattered: Picturing (her) Housing Career Helen Runting and Helene Frichot 23. Toward a Theory of Interior Ross Exo Adams 24. Repositioning - Theory Now. Don't excavate, change reality! Roemer Van Toorn Part 7: Forms of Engagement 25. (Un)political Pippo Ciorra 26. Prince Complex: Narcissism and Reproduction of the Architectural Mirror Camilo Amaral 27. Less than Enough: a critique of Aureli's project Douglas Spencer 28. Repositioning - Having Ideas Mario Carpo 29. 'But that is not enough' Teresa Stoppani Index

✦ Subjects

Architecture--Philosophie;Architecture--Philosophy;Architecture -- Philosophy;Architecture -- Philosophie