Title & Author:

Theorizing a new agenda for architecture : an anthology of architectural theory, 1965-1995 / Kate Nesbitt, editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [1996]
©1996

Description:

606 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postmodernism: architectural responses to the crisis within Modernism -- Chapter 2. Semiotics and structuralism: the question of signification -- Chapter 3. Poststructuralism and deconstruction: the issues of originality and authorship -- Chapter 4. Historicism: the problem of tradition -- Chapter 5. Typology and transformation -- Chapter 6. Urban theory after Modernism: contextualism, main street, and beyond -- Chapter 7. The school of Venice -- Chapter 8. Political and ethical agendas -- Chapter 9. Phenomenology: of meaning and place -- Chapter 10. Architecture, nature, and the constructed site -- Chapter 11. Critical regionalism: local culture vs. universal civilization -- Chapter 12. Tectonic expression -- Chapter 13. Feminism, gender, and the problem of the body -- Chapter 14. Contemporary definitions of the sublime -- Notes on contributors -- Illustration sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
Also issued online.
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Summary:

A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism. By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568980531 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781568980539 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
156898054X (paper ; alkaline paper)
9781568980546 (paper ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architecture Philosophy.
Geschichte 1965-1995

Form/genre:

Derrida copy Annotations (Provenance) NjP
Derrida copy Insertions (Provenance) NjP

Added entries:

Nesbitt, Kate, 1957- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 120717
Call No.: ID NA2500.T49 REF; ID:95-B2132
Status: Available