CONTENT
Acknowledgements 10
Preface 12
Introduction 16
CHAPTER 1
POSTMODERNISM: ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSf S TO THE CRISIS WITHIN MODERNISM
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Selections froma Forthcoming Book (1965) 72
Robert VenturiPost-Functionalism (1976)Peter Eisenman 78
A Case for Figurative Architecture (1982)Michael Graves 84
The Relevance of Classical Architecture (198))Demetri Porphyrias 91
New Directions in Modern American Archiiecture: Postscript atthe Edge of Modernism (1977)Robert A.M. Stern 98
CHAPTER 2
SEMIOTICS AND STRUCTURALISM: THE QUESTION OF SIGNIFICATION
Semiotics and Architecture: Ideological Consumption or Theoretical Work (1973)Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas 110
A Plain Man's Guide to the Theory of Sign? in Architecture (1977)Geoffrey Broadbent 122
CHAPTER 3
POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND D ^CONSTRUCTION: THE ISSUES OF
ORIGINALITY AND AUTHORSHIP
Architecture Where Desire Can Live (1986)Jacques Derrida interviewed by Eva Meyer 142
Architecture and Limits [ (1980)Bernard Tschumi 150
Architecture and Limits II (1981)Bernard Tschumi 156
Architecture and Limits III (1981)Bernard Tschumi 162
Introduction: Notes Towards a Theory of Architectural Disjunction (1988)Bernard Tschumi 169
Architecture and the Problem of the Rhetorical Figure (1987)Peter Eisenman 174
Derrida and Beyond (1988) Robert Mugerauer 182
CHAPTER 4
HISTORICISM: THE PROBLEM OF TRADITION
Three Kinds of Historici; m (1983) Alan Colquhoun 200
The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End (1984)Peter Eisenman 211
From Contrast to Analogy: Developments in the Concept of Architectural Intervention (1985) Ignasi de SolaMorales Rubio 228
CHAPTER 5
TYPOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION
On the Typology of Architecture (1963)Giulio Carlo Argan 240
Typology and Design Method (1967)Alan Colquhoun 248
The Third Typology (i97<>)Anthony Vidler 258
CHAPTER 6
MAIN STREET,
URBAN THEORY AFTER MODERNISM: CONTEXTUALISM AND BEYOND
Collage City (1975)Colin Rowe and Fred Koetier 266
Contextualism: Urban Ideals and Deformations (1971)Thomas L. Schumacher 294
Thomas L. Schumacher
A Significance for A&P Parking Lots or Learning from Las Vegas (1968)Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown 308
Postscript: Introduction for New Research "the Contemporary City" (1988)Rem Koolhaas 322
Toward the Contemporary City (1989)Rem Koolhaas 326
Beyond Delirious (1993)Rem Koolhaas 331
CHAPTER 7
THE SCHOOL OF VENICE
Territory and Architecture (1985)Vittorio Gregotti 338
An Analogical Architecture (1976)Aldo Rossi 345
Thoughts About My Recent Work (1976) Aldo Rossi 354
Problems in the Form of a Conclusion (1980 Manfredo Tafuri 360
CHAPTER 8
POLITICAL AND ETHICAL AGENDAS
Communitarianism and Emotivism: Two Rival Views of Ethics and Architecture (1993) Philip Bess 370
The Architecture of Deceit (1984)Diane Ghirardo 384
The Ethical Function of Architecture (1975)Karsten Harries 392
Design, Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Lhings (1993)William McDonough 398
The Hannover Principles (1992)William McDonough Architects 408
CHAPTER 9
PHENOMENOLOGY: OF MEANING AND PLACE
The Phenomenon of Place (1976)Christian Norberg-Schulz 412
Heidegger's Thinking on Architecture (1983Christian Norberg-Schulz 429
On Reading Heidegger (1974)Kenneth Frampton 440
The Geometry of Feeling: A Look at the Phenomenology of Architecture (1986) 447
CHAPTER 10
ARCHITECTURE, NATURE, AND THE CONSTRUCTED SITE
Toward New Horizons in Architecture (1991)Tadao Ando 456
Negation and Reconciliation (1982)Raimund Abraham 462
CHAPTER 11
CRITICAL REGIONALISM: LOCAL CULTURE VS. UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION
Prospects for a Critical Regionalism (1983)Kenneth Frampton 468
Why Critical Regionalism Today? (1990)Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre 483
CHAPTER 1 2
TECTONIC EXPRESSION
The Exercise of Detailing (1983)Vittorio Gregotti 494
The Tell-the-Tale Detail (1984)Marco Frascari 498
Rappel a Fordre, the Case for the Tectonic (1990)Kenneth Frampton 516
CHAPTER 1 3
FEMINISM, GENDER, AND ThiE PROBLEM OF THE BODY
The Pleasure of Architecture (1977)Bernard Tschumi 530
Architecture from Without: Body, Logic, and Sex (1988) Diana I. Agrest 541
Visions' Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media (1992)Peter Eisenman 554
CHAPTER 1 4
CONTEMPORARY DEFINITIONS OF THE SUBLIME
En Terror Firma: In Trail > of Grotextes (1988)Peter Eisenman 564
Theorizing the Unhomely (1990)Anthony Vidler 572
Notes on Contributors 577
Illustration Sources 584
Bibliography 585
Index 591