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An anthology of the pivotal theoretical texts that have defined architecture culture in the late twentieth century.

In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes-post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric-has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.

This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.

Contributors
Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Archizoom, George Baird, Jennifer Bloomer, Massimo Cacciari, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Alan Colquhoun, Maurice Culot, Jacques Derrida, Ignasi de Sola-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Frank Gehry, J rgen Habermas, John Hejduk, Denis Hollier, Bernard Huet, Catherine Ingraham, Fredric Jameson, Charles A. Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Sanford Kwinter, Henri Lefebvre, Daniel Libeskind, Mary McLeod, Alberto Perez-G mez, Jose Quetglas, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Massimo Scolari, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Segrest, Jorge Silvetti, Robert Somol, Martin Steinmann, Robert A. M. Stern, James Stirling, Manfredo Tafuri, Georges Teyssot, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Paul Virilio, Mark Wigley

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• Introduction(p. x)
• 1969 Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology(p. 2)
• 1969 'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture(p. 36)
• 1970 No-Stop City(p. 56)
• 1971 Learning from Pop(p. 60)
• 1971 Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena(p. 68)
• 1972 Introduction to Five Architects(p. 72)
• 1968-74 Wall House(p. 86)
• 1973 From College City, manuscript in circulation from 1973 published 1978(p. 88)
• 1973 Linguistics in Architecture(p. 112)
• 1973 The New Architecture and the Avant-Garde(p. 124)
• 1974 L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language(p. 146)
• 1974 From The Production of Space(p. 174)
• 1974 Architectural Metaphors(p. 190)
• 1974 Design versus Non-Design(p. 198)
• 1975 The Architectural Paradox(p. 214)
• 1975 The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts(p. 230)
• New York Museum of Modern Art
• 1976 Post-Functionalism(p. 234)
• 1976 Gray Architecture as Post-Modernism, or, Up and Down from Orthodoxy(p. 240)
• 1976 Reality as History: Notes for a Discussion of Realism in Architecture(p. 246)
• 1977 Formalism--Realism(p. 254)
• 1977 The Beauty of Shadows(p. 262)
• 1977 The Third Typology(p. 284)
• 1977 Heterotopias and the History of Spaces(p. 296)
• 1977 Post-Modern Architecture(p. 306)
• 1977-82 Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart(p. 318)
• 1977 'Life in the Metropolis' or 'The Culture of Congestion'(p. 320)
• 1978 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again(p. 332)
• 1978 The Only Path for Architecture(p. 348)
• 1977-79 School at Quentin-en-Yvelines(p. 356)
• 1979 The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition(p. 358)
• 1979 Gehry House, Santa Monica, California(p. 378)
• 1980 Loss of Synthesis: Mies's Pavilion(p. 382)
• 1980 Eupalinos or Architecture(p. 392)
• 1981 The Manhattan Transcripts(p. 408)
• 1981 Modern and Postmodern Architecture(p. 412)
• 1982 Space, Knowledge, and Power(p. 428)
• 1982 Architecture and the Critique of Ideology(p. 440)
• 1983 Introduction to Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science(p. 462)
• 1983 Chamber Works(p. 476)
• 1984 In Front of Lines That Leave Nothing Behind(p. 480)
• 1984 Architectural Design as a System of Research Programs(p. 490)
• 1984 The Italophiles at Work(p. 506)
• 1984 The End of the Classical: The End of the Beginning, the End of the End(p. 522)
• 1984 The Overexposed City(p. 540)
• 1984 The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design(p. 552)
• 1986 Point de folie--Maintenant l'architecture(p. 566)
• 1986 Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors: An Architecture of Absence(p. 582)
• 1986 La Citta Nuova: Modernity and Continuity(p. 586)
• 1987 Weak Architecture(p. 614)
• 1988 L'esprit Nouveau: Architecture and Publicite(p. 624)
• 1988 The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism(p. 642)
• 1988 The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel(p. 658)
• 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture(p. 676)
• New York Museum of Modern Art
• 1989 Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism(p. 678)
• 1989 Bibliotheque de France, Paris(p. 704)
• 1991 /Twisting the Separatrix/(p. 708)
• 1992 From The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely(p. 744)
• 1992 Abodes of Theory and Flesh: Tabbles of Bower(p. 758)
• 1993 One or Several Masters?(p. 780)
• Index(p. 802)

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K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art. He is the author, among other books, of Modern Architecture and the Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.