Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate

Koolhaas, Rem. “Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis… or Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa.” In S, M, L, XL . New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 1885254865.

Lee, Ching Kwan. “Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism; Different Cultural Logics in Labour Control.” In Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism . Edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0415915430.

Lynn, Greg. “Animate Form.” In Animate Form . New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568980833.

Suggested Readings

Foster, Hal. “Part 1: Architecture and Design.” In Design and Crime . London: Verso, 2002.

Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature . New York: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 0415903874.

Plant, Sadie. “Anna 1,” “Gambling on the Future,” “Binaries,” “Supporting Evidence,” “Genderquake,” “Cultures,” “Nets,” “Digits,” “Holes,” “Cyborg Manifestoes,” “Programming Language,” “Shuttle Systems,” and “Casting on.” In Zeros + Ones . New York: Doubleday, 1997. ISBN: 0385482604.

Fuss, Diana, and Joel Sanders. “Bergasse 19: Inside Freud’s Office.” In Stud: Architectures of Masculinity . Edited by Joel Sanders. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 1568980760.

Djebar, Assia. “Postface: Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound.” In Women of Algiers in Their Apartment . Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1992. ISBN: 0813914027.

Keenan, Thomas. “Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, ‘Humanitarian Intervention.” In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother . Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262621656.

Wodiczko, Krzysztof. “Designing for the City of Strangers.” In Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262731225.

Manovich, Lev. “Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision.” In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother . Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

“Access to Tools.” In The Original Whole Earth Catalogue, Special 30th Anniversary Issue . Edited by Stewart Brand, and Peter Warshall. Whole Earth, 1998. ISBN: 1892907054.

Reinhold, Martin. “Environment, c. 1971.” In Grey Room 14 (Winter 2004).

Papanek, Victor. “Environmental Design: Pollution, Crowding, Ecology.” Chapter 10 in Design for the Real World . Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984. ISBN: 0897331532.

Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968 . Edited by by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Speaks, Michael. “Negotiating the Hypertext: Bernard Tschumi’s La Villette .” In Context and Modernity . Papers from the Delft International Working Seminar on Critical Regionalism, 12-15 June 1990.

Eisenman, Peter. “Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign.” In Oppositions Reader . Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538.

Suggested Reading

Jencks, Charles. “Part Three: Post-Modern Architecture.” In The Language of Post-Modern Architecture . 6th ed. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. ISBN: 0847813592.

Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society.” In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture . Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: The Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X.

Huyssen, Andreas. “Mapping the Postmodern.” In A Post-Modern Reader . Edited by Charles Jencks. London: Academy Editions, 1982. ISBN: 1854901079.

Baudrillard, Jean. “The Ecstasy of Communication.” In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture . Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983.

Frampton, Kenneth. “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance.” In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture . Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X.

Lefaivre, Liane, and Alexander Tzonis. “Why Critical Regionalism Today?” In Architecture + Urbanism , May 1990.

Fraser, Valerie. “Brazil.” In Building The New World: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960 . London: Verso, 2000. ISBN: 1859843077.

Elleh, Nnamdi. “Architecture and Nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994.” In The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 . Edited by Okwui Enwezor. New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3791325027.

Eleb, Monique: “An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism: Écochard, Candilis and ATBAT-Afrique.” In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture . Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

Serageldin, Ismail. “The Architecture of Empowerment: A Survey.” In The Architecture of Empowerment . London: Academy Editions, 1997.

Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture . Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1988. ISBN: 0826310044.

Rapoport, Amos. “Alternative Theories of House Form,” and “Socio-cultural Factors and House Form.” Chapter 2, and 3 in House Form and Culture . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. ISBN: 0133956733.

Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction . New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 10-74. ISBN: 0195019199.

Jane Jacobs. Selections from Death and Life of American Cities . New York: Vintage Books, 1963. Chapters 6, 8, 13, 16.

Wiener, Norbert. Chapter I, “Cybernetics in History,” and Chapter II, “Progress and Entropy.” In The Human Use of Human Being: Cybernetics and Society . New York: Doubleday, 1954.

Frampton, Kenneth. “On Heidegger.” Oppositions 4, October 1974.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. “The Phenomenon of Place.” In Architecture Association Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1976). Reprinted in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture . Edited by Kate Nesbitt. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 156898054X.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.

Kahn, Louis. “Monumentality.” In Architecture Culture 1943-1968 . Edited by Joan Ockman with Edward Eigen. New York: Columbia Books of Architecture/Rizzoli, 1993. ISBN: 0847815226.

Bonnefoi, Christian. “Louis Kahn and Minimalism.” Oppositions 24, Spring 1981.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. “Kahn, Heidegger, and the Language of Architecture.” Oppositions 18, Fall 1979.

Lobell, Mimi. “Kahn, Penn and the Philadelphia School.” Oppositions 4, October 1974.

Venturi, Robert. Selections from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture . New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977. ISBN: 0870702815.

Scott Brown, Denise. “Learning from Pop.” In Casabella 35, no. 359-360 (December 1971).

Rossi, Aldo. “The Structure of Urban Artifacts.” Chapter 1 in The Architecture of the City . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610.

Moneo, Rafael. “The Idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery.” Oppositions 5. Reprinted in The Oppositions Reader . Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538.

Tafuri, Manfredo. “The ‘Case’ of Aldo Rossi.” In History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985 . Translated by Jessica Levine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780262200677.

Rossi, Aldo. “The Individuality of Urban Artifacts; Architecture.” Chapter 3 in The Architecture of the City . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610.

Tafuri, Manfredo. “ L’architecture dans le boudoir. ” In The Sphere and the Labyrinth . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780262700399.

Foucault, Michel. “The Subject and Power,” and “Space, Knowledge and Power.” In Power Vol. 3 of the Essential Works of Focault, 1954-1984. Series Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: The New Press, 2000. ISBN: 1565847091.

Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In Lenin and Philosophy . New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. ISBN: 0902308122.

Lang, Peter, and William Menking. “Only Architecture Will Be Our Lives.” In Superstudio: Life Without Objects . Edited by Peter Lang, and William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694.

———. “Suicidal Desires.” In Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Edited by Peter Lang, William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694.

Ambasz, Emilio, ed. “Counterdesign As Postulation.” In Italy: The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design . New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972, pp. 223-265. ISBN: 0870703935.

Genevro, Rosalie. “Introduction.” The Inflatable Moment : Pneumatics and Protest in ‘68 . Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767.

Dessauce, Marc. “On Pneumatic Apparitions.” In The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in ‘68 . Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767.

Tschumi, Bernard, and Martin Pawley. “The Beaux-Arts Since ‘68.” Architectural Design, July 1971.

Wigley, Mark. “The Hyper-Architecture of Desire.” In Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire. Rotterdam: Center for Contemporary Art, 1998. ISBN: 9064503435.

Violeau, Jean-Louis. “A Critique of Architecture: The Bitter Victory of the Situationist International.” In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture . Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

Banham, Reyner. “Fun and Flexibility,” and “Epilogue: The Meaning of Megastructure.” Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 in Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past . London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN: 0500340684.

Lopsinger, Mary Louise: “Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance - Cedric Price’s Fun Palace.” In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture . Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

Smithson, Alison, ed. “CIAM/Team 10.” Architectural Design . May 1960, pp. 175-207.