Rethinking architecture : a reader in cultural theory / Neil Leach

Functionalism today / Theodor W. Adorno -- Architecture ; Slaughterhouse ; Museum / Georges Bataille -- On some motifs in Baudelaire ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin -- Formative education, engineering form, ornament / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby ; On employment agencies ; the construction of a space / Siegfried Kracauer -- Bridge and door ; The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Poetics of space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard -- Building, dwelling, thinking ; ... Poetically man dwells ... ; The origin of the work of art (extracts) ; Art and space / Martin Heidegger -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The production of space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre -- The end of modernity, the end of the project? ; Ornament/monument / Gianni Vattimo -- Semiology and the urban ; The Eiffel Tower / Roland Barthes -- Function and sign : the semiotics of architecture ; How an exposition exposes itself / Umberto Eco -- The Beaubourg-effect : implosion and deterrence ; America / Jean Baudrillard -- Modern and postmodern architecture / Jürgen Habermas -- The cultural logic of late capitalism ; The constraints of postmodernism (extract) ; Is space political? / Fredric Jameson -- Domus and the megalopolis / Jean-François Lyotard -- Aisenmann and the housing of tradition / Andrew Benjamin -- Attacks of the castle / Hélène Cixous -- Postscript on the societies of control ; City/state (with Félix Guattari) / Gilles Deleuze -- Architecture where the desire may live (interview) ; Point de folie : maintenant l'architecture ; Why Peter Eisenman writes such good books / Jacques Derrida -- Of other spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias ; Panopticism (extract) ; Space, knowledge and power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) / Michel Foucault -- The overexposed city / Paul Virilio.
Modernism - Phenomenology - Structuralism - Postmodernism - Postcosntructuralism

Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory from a broader cultural perspective. The book represents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture.

Maestría en arquitectura mención proyectos integrales