Title & Author:

Oppositions reader : selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture, 1973-1984 / edited and with an introduction by K. Michael Hays.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 701 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On reading Heidegger / Kenneth Frampton -- Neo-functionalism / Mario Gandelsonas -- Post-funtionalism / Peter Eisenman -- The third typology / Anthony Vidler -- Monument/memory and the mortality of architecture / Kurt W. Forster -- Industrialization and the crises in architecture / Kenneth Frampton -- Physical context/cultural context : including it all / Stuart Cohen -- Aldo Rossi : the idea of architecture and the Modena cemetery / Rafael Moneo -- Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building / Colin Rowe -- Criticism and design / Francesco Dal Co -- Sign and substance : reflections on complexity, Las Vegas, and Oberlin / Alan Colquhoun -- Aspects of modernism : Maison Dom-ino and the self-referential sign / Peter Eisenman -- From structure to subject : the formation of an architectural language / Mario Gandelsonas -- Type and context in urbanism : Colin Rowe's contextualism / William Ellis -- Architecture in the urban desert : a critical introduction to Japanese architecture after modernism / Hajime Yatsuka -- L'architecure dans le Boudoir : the language of criticism and the criticism of language / Manfredo Tafuri -- On architectural formalism and social concern : a discourse for social planners and radical chic architects / Denise Scott Brown -- Design versus non-design / Diana Agrest -- Architecture and transgression / Bernard Tschumi -- The beauty of shadows / Jorge Silvetti -- Avant-garde and continuity / Giorgio Grassi -- Vorwärts, Kameraden, Wir Müssen Zurück (forward, comrades, we must go back) / Leon Krier -- The most interesting form of lie / Joan Ockman -- "We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey" : archigram and the retreat from technology / Martin Pawley -- The idea of type : the transformation of the academic ideal, 1750-1830 / Anthony Vidler -- Antiquity and modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret houses of 1923 / Kurt W. Forster -- Le Corbusier and Algiers / Mary McLeod -- Modern architecture and industry : Peter Behrens and the AEG factories / Stanford Anderson -- The invention of the modern movement / Giorgio Ciucci -- The architects' ball-a vignette, 1931 / Rem Koolhass -- Karel Teige's "Mundaneum" (1929) and Le Corbusier's "in defense of architecture" (1933) / introduction by George Baird -- Type / Quatremère de Quincy -- The modern cult of monuments : its character and its origin / Alois Riegl -- On Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas / Fred Koetter -- Critical discipline : Giorgio Grassi, La arquitectura como oficio / Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió -- The Beaux-Arts Exhibition / edited by William Ellis.
Also issued online.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Includes essays by Kurt W. Forster.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

156898152X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781568981529 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1568981538 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568981536 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture postmoderne.
Déconstructivisme (Architecture)
Postmodern.
Deconstructivist.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.
Déconstructivisme (architecture)
Architecture.
19e siècle.
20e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecte.
Théorie architecturale.
Histoire.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Added entries:

Hays, K. Michael.
Oppositions.
Forster, Kurt Walter

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204748
Call No.: NA680 .O69 1998
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 204747
Call No.: NA680 .O69 1998
Copy: c. 1
Status: External loan