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Inside density : international colloquium on architecture and cities # 1

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L'appel à contributions pour le colloque "Inside Density" organisé par NeTHCA en novembre 1999, mentionnait les questions relatives à la densité, la congestion et la mise en réseaux. L'objectif du colloque était d'explorer les enjeux théoriques du concept de densité et de critiquer l'usage naïf des indices de densité comme critères d'efficacité de la planification. Le colloque a réuni un large éventail de chercheurs renommés ou émergeants ainsi que d'architectes professionnels. Ce volume, publié sous la direction de Hilde Heynen et de David Vanderburgh, rassemble les plus intéressantes contributions de ce colloque, dans leur langue originelle française ou anglaise. Il comporte aussi bien les propos des conférenciers Pascal Amphoux et Mark Wigley, que des essais de Tom Avermaete, Dieter De Clercq, Alexander D'Hooghe, Marc Glaudemans, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, Bernard Kormoss, Hubert Lionnez/Roberto Zancan, Olivier Mathieu/Li Mei Tsien, Anne Mie Depuydt/Erik Van Daele, Kai Vöckler, Sarah Whiting, Paola Yacoub/Michel Lasserre . . . / The call for the "Inside Density" colloquium, organized by neTHCA in november 1999, evoked papers addressing issues of density, congestion and networking. The aim of the colloquium was to explore the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of density and to criticize the naïve use of density indexes as markers of good planning. The colloquium brought together an international range of renowned scholars, promising young researchers, and practising architects. This volume, co-edited by Hilde Heynen and David Vanderburgh, presents the best texts, some in English and some in French, that resulted from the colloquium. It contains contributions by key-note speakers Pascal Amphoux and Mark Wigley, as well as papers by Tom Avermaete, Dieter De Clercq, Alexander D'Hooghe, Marc Glaudemans, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, Bernard Kormoss, Hubert Lionnez/Roberto Zancan, Olivier Mathieu/Li Mei Tsien, Anne Mie Depuydt/Erik Van Daele, Kai Vöckler, Sarah Whiting, Paola Yacoub/Michel Lasserre . . .

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Back from Utopia : the challenge of the modern movement

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With contributions by John Allan, Tadao Ando, Geert Bekaert, Jan Birksted, Franziska Bollerey, Jean-Louis Cohen, Maristella Casciato, Catherine Cooke, Bruno De Meulder, Balkrishna V. Doshi, Norman Foster, Kenneth Frampton, Alice Friedman, Miles Glendinning, John Habraken, Louis Hellman, Hubert-Jan Henket, Herman Hertzberger, Hilde Heynen, Wessel de Jonge, Hasan-Uddin Khan, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Hannah Lewi, William Lim, Nils-Ole Lund, Mary Mcleod, Marco De Michelis, Otakar Mácel, Oscar Niemeyer, Marie-Françoise Plissart, Moshe Safdie, Jagdish Sagar, Harry Seidler, Dennis Sharp, Julius Shulman, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Kenzo Tange, Marie-Josée Therrien, Susana Torre, Panayotis Tournikiotis, France Vanlaethem, Anthony Vidler and David Wild

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Architecture and modernity : a critique

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Critical theories such as those of the Frankfurt School of the twenties and thirties gave rise to a complex and sophisticated critique of modernity and modernism. The history and theory of twentieth-century architecture, which developed rather independently of this rich tradition, appear naive and unbalanced in comparison. In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge this gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-à-vis modernity. The book provides architectural students with an introduction to the discourse of critical theory. The subchapters on Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, and the Venice School (Tafuri, Dal Co, Cacciari) can be studied independently.

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Architecture and modernity : a critique

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Critical theories such as those of the Frankfurt School of the twenties and thirties gave rise to a complex and sophisticated critique of modernity and modernism. The history and theory of twentieth-century architecture, which developed rather independently of this rich tradition, appear naive and unbalanced in comparison. In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge this gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-à-vis modernity. The book provides architectural students with an introduction to the discourse of critical theory. The subchapters on Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, and the Venice School (Tafuri, Dal Co, Cacciari) can be studied independently.

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Negotiating domesticity : spatial productions of gender in modern architecture

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The home is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender, and domesticity become visible. This book investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms. Despite modern architecture's prominent emphasis on housing, the point is often made that modern art and architecture were about the suppression, rather than the glorification of domesticity. The contention of the authors however is that the modern era marked the rise of a new sense of domesticity that developed simultaneously with re-definitions of gender roles and that led to unprecedented articulations of sexuality with domestic space. The essays brought together in this book address this issue through interdisciplinary contributions that enrich architectural theory and history with sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. They explore the relationship between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity.