Constructing a New Agenda
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Constructing a New Agenda

Architectural Theory 1993-2009

  1. 516 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Constructing a New Agenda

Architectural Theory 1993-2009

About this book

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt's best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s, where Nesbitt left off, through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era. Multiple themes—including the impact of digital technologies on processes of architectural design, production, materiality, and representation; the implications of globalization and networks of information; the growing emphasis on sustainable and green architecture; and the phenomenon of the 'starchitect' and iconic architecture—appear against a background colored by architectural theory, as it existed from the 1960s on, in a period of transition (if not crisis) that centers around the perceived abyss between theory and practice. Theory's transitional state persists today, rendering its immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice.While other collections of recent theoretical writings exist none attempt to address the situation as a whole, providing in one place key theoretical texts of the past decade and a half. This book provides a foundation for ongoing discussions surrounding contemporary architectural thought and practice, with iconic essays by Greg Lynn, Deborah Berke, Sanford Kwinter, Samuel Mockbee, Stan Allen, Rem Koolhaas, William Mitchell, Anthony Vidler, Micahel Hays, Reinhold Martin, Reiser + Umemoto, Glenn Murcutt, William McDonough, Micahael Braungart, Michael Speaks, and many more.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Constructing a New Agenda
  3. Copyright Information
  4. Acknowlegments
  5. Introduction to Architectural Curvilinearity
  6. Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant, and the Supple
  7. Charter of the New Urbanism
  8. Thoughts on the Everyday
  9. Mach 1 (and Other Mystic Visitations)
  10. A New Pragmatism?
  11. The Rural Studio
  12. Field Conditions
  13. Junkspace
  14. The Cunning of Cosmetics
  15. Green Questionnaire
  16. Scale and Span in a Global Digital World
  17. Introduction to Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism
  18. Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism
  19. Design Intelligence
  20. From Principles to Practices: Creating a Sustaining Architecture for the Twenty-First Century
  21. Boundaries/Networks
  22. Future City
  23. Architecture and the Virtual: Towards a New Materiality
  24. No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture...and Its Limitations
  25. Architecture's Expanded Field
  26. Architecture by Numbers
  27. Introduction to Critical of What?
  28. Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism
  29. Technology, Place, and Nonmodern Regionalism
  30. Raised to Observe: Glenn Murcutt
  31. On Criticality
  32. Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation
  33. Introduction to Atlas of Novel Tectonics
  34. Practice Makes Perfect
  35. Ru(m)inations: The Haunts of Contemporary Architecture
  36. Afterword