The figure of knowledge : conditioning architectural theory, 1960s-1990s / edited by Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loosen, Sebastiaan, editor.

Heynickx, Rajesh, 1977- editor.

Heynen, Hilde, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Historiography.

Architecture, Modern.

Modern movement (Architecture)--Historiography.

Modern movement (Architecture).

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern--Historiography.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, 2020.

Summary:

It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.

Contents:

Meaning and effect: revisiting semiotics in architecture / André Loeckx and Hilde Heynen

A voice from the margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s architecture culture / Philip Goad

Contaminations: art, architecture, and the critical vision of Lara-Vinca Masini / Peter Lang

Architecture becomes programming: invisible technicians, printouts, and situated theories in the 1960s / Matthew Allen

Troubled dialogues: intellectuality at a crossroads at the Carrefour de l'Europe in Brussels / Sebastiaan Loosen

Institutionalized critique? On the re(birth) of architectural theory after modernism: ETH and MIT compared / Ole W. Fischer

Thinking architecture, its theory and history: a case study about Melvin Charney / Louis Martin

Dirtying the real: Liane Lefaivre and the architectural stalemate with emerging realities / Andrew Toland

Between making and acting: the inherent ambivalence of Arendtian architectural theory / Paul Holmquist

Critical regionalism: a not so critical theory / Carmen Popescu

The historiographical invention of the Soviet avant-garde: cultural politics and the return of the lost project / Ricardo Ruivo

Effete, Effeminate, Feminist: feminizing architecture theory / Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

Anthologizing post-structuralism: architecture écriture, gender, and subjectivity / Karen Burns

Consequences of pragmatism: a retrospect on "The pragmatist imagination" / Joan Ockman

A discipline in the making / Hilde Heynen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9462702241

9789462702240

OCLC:

1135666063