Constructing a new agenda : architectural theory 1993-2009 / A. Krista Sykes, editor.
1st ed.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2010.
511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era. Multiple themes including the impact of digital technologies on processes of architectural design, production, materiality, and representation; the implications of globalization and networks of information; the growing emphasis on sustainable and green architecture; and the phenomenon of the 'starchitect and iconic architecture appear against a background colored by architectural theory, as it existed from the 1960s on, in a period of transition (if not crisis) that centers around the perceived abyss between theory and practice. Theory's transitional state persists today, rendering its immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice.
While other collections of recent theoretical writings exist none attempt to address the situation as a whole, providing in one place key theoretical texts of the past decade and a half. This book provides a foundation for ongoing discussions surrounding contemporary architectural thought and practice, with iconic essays by Greg Lynn, Deborah Berke, Sanford Kwinter, Samuel Mockbee, Stan Allen, Rem Koolhaas, William Mitchell, Anthony Vidler, Micahel Hays, Reinhold Martin, Reiser + Umemoto, Glenn Murcutt, William McDonough, Micahael Braungart, Michael Speaks, and many more."--Pub. desc.
9781568988597 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1568988591 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture and Planning.
Essays.
Interviews.
Sykes, Krista.
Hays, K. Michael
Allen, Stan
Berke, Deborah
Braungart, Michael, 1958-
Chu, Karl S.
Davidson, Cynthia C.
Foster, Norman, 1935-
Graafland, Ad
Herzog, Thomas, 1941-
Jameson, Fredric
Kaplicky, Jan, 1937-2009
Kipnis, Jeffrey
Koolhaas, Rem
Kwinter, Sanford
Lavin, Sylvia
Lynn, Greg
Martin, Reinhold, 1964-
McDonough, William
McMorrough, John
Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010
Mockbee, Samuel
Moore, Steven A., 1945-
Murcutt, Glenn
Picon, Antoine
Rajchman, John
Rogers, Richard, 1933-
Sassen, Saskia
Somol, Robert
Speaks, Michael
Toorn, Roemer van
Vidler, Anthony
Whiting, Sarah
Yeang, Ken, 1948-
Congress for the New Urbanism
Reiser + Umemoto
Location: Library study room 266537
Call No.: NA2500 .C65 2010
Status: Available
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