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Title: Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory by Neil Leach ISBN: 0415128269 Publisher: Routledge mot E F & N Spon Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3
Rating: 1
Summary: Mis-reading architecture
Comment: I read this book and was instantly struck by the mis-representation and editing of the theories of some of the centuries most important thinkers. The discourse is limited to a one-dimensional view of architectural theory that seems to dismiss the most potent ideas of critical theory and radical critique. The book is structured around themed chapters containing several extracts with a logic of "this is a critique of this" in a rather naive way. The author's ommission of Heidegger's thinking is bizarre and his critique of Loos misses out the crucial influence of the intellectual milieu of early 20th century Vienna (Kraus, Wittgenstein etc.). Some interesting lesser known figures are brought to light (Kracauer for example)and there is some fantastic material here extracted from larger works, but be warned! this is a book with its own agenda.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rethinking Compilations
Comment: This book is a compilation of essays on architecture from a very distinctive and unique point of view, which shows people involved with architecture or its related fields the perspective of recognised sociologists, communicators, semiologists et cetera, and which constitutes a very valuable tool for a deeper understanding of our everyday proceedings in such a globalizing practice as the art of designing works of art where we can dwell.
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Title: Architecture Theory since 1968 by K. Michael Hays ISBN: 0262581884 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995 by Kate Nesbitt ISBN: 156898054X Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The Emerald City and Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination by Daniel Willis ISBN: 1568981740 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Oppositions Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture 1973-1984 by K. Michael Hays ISBN: 1568981538 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Graphics for Architecture by Kevin Forseth ISBN: 0471289426 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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