CONTENTS
5 Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
PART I
18 The Modern Movement in Architecture
1962-1980
23 Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology
27 Formal and Functional Interactions: a Study of Two Late Buildings by Le Corbusier
34 Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier
45 Typology and Design Method
52 Rules, Realism and History
58 Alvar Aalto: Type versus Function
64 The Superblock
78 Centraal Beheer
82 Plateau Beaubourg
90 Frames to Framework
97 Historicism and the Limits of Semiology
106 Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las Vegas and Oberlin
116 EH Gombrich and the Hegelian Tradition
122 EH Gombrich: "Symptoms and Syndromes" In Search of Cultural History
124 The Beaux-Arts Plan: Viollet-le-Duc's Transformation of the Parisian Hotel Particulier
130 Form and Figure
140 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again
PART II 154
Three Kinds of Historicism
1980-1989 163
Rationalism: a Philosophical Concept in Architecture
178 Composition versus the Project
184 Vernacular Classicism
190 A Way of Looking at the Present Situation
193 The Significance of Le Corbusier
201 Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason
215 The Strategies of the Grand Travaux
226 Classicism and Ideology
228 Regionalism and Technology
230 "Newness" and "Age-Value" in Alois Riegl
233 Postmodern Critical Attitudes
238 Postmodernism and Structuralism: a Retrospective Glance
PART III 248 Reyner Banham: A Reading for the 1980s
1989-2004
253 The Le Corbusier Centenary
268 The Nineteenth Century Terminus Station as Cultural Artefact
280 Regionalism 1
287 Regionalism 2
292 Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern
302 Criticism and Self-criticism in German Modernism
315 Architectural Manifestos of the 1960s in America
321 Lost Illusions
325 Esprit de Corps
329 Notes on Public Policy and City Planning in Europe since 1840
335 Changing Museum
346 Index