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A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval. The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty years surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years

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• List of Illustrations(p. viii)
• Prelude: The 1960s(p. 1)
• Technology and Ecology(p. 3)
• Social Underpinnings of Modernism(p. 6)
• 1968(p. 11)
• Part 1 1970s(p. 15)
• 1 Pars Destruens: 1968-1973(p. 17)
• Venturi and Scott Brown(p. 18)
• Rossi and Tafuri(p. 23)
• The Milan Triennale(p. 27)
• The IAUS and the New York Five(p. 30)
• 2 The Crisis of Meaning(p. 37)
• Semiotics and Architecture(p. 39)
• Five on Five(p. 43)
• Gray and White(p. 45)
• Variations on a Theme(p. 48)
• 3 Early Postmodernism(p. 53)
• The Language of Postmodernism(p. 54)
• Consummation in Venice(p. 57)
• European Counterpoints(p. 59)
• 4 Modernism Abides(p. 65)
• The Chicago High-Rise(p. 65)
• German Engineering(p. 70)
• British Renaissance(p. 74)
• Post-Metabolism in Japan(p. 79)
• The Special Case of Alexander(p. 85)
• Part 2 1980s(p. 89)
• 5 Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism(p. 91)
• Postmodernism Further Defined(p. 91)
• Postmodernism Opposed(p. 94)
• Critical Regionalism and Phenomenology(p. 97)
• Mérida and Venice(p. 102)
• 6 Traditionalism and New Urbanism(p. 108)
• The Prince of Architecture(p. 108)
• The Paternoster Controversy(p. 111)
• Toward a New Urbanism(p. 115)
• 7 Gilded Age of Theory(p. 123)
• Poststructural Theory(p. 123)
• Poststructural Architecture(p. 129)
• Eisemnan and Tschumi(p. 131)
• 8 Deconstruction(p. 141)
• Postmodernism Undefined(p. 142)
• Gehry(p. 146)
• The 68ers Come of Age(p. 149)
• "...a devious architecture..."(p. 154)
• Part 3 1990s and Present(p. 159)
• 9 Wake of the Storm(p. 161)
• Fragments of Fragments(p. 161)
• From Derrida to Deleuze(p. 164)
• Geometry and Autonomy(p. 167)
• The End of the Figure: Manipulated Grounds(p. 171)
• Form without Rhetoric(p. 174)
• 10 Pragmatism and Post-Criticality(p. 177)
• OMA(p. 177)
• The Orange Revolution(p. 185)
• Post-Criticality(p. 192)
• 11 Minimalisms(p. 194)
• Materiality and Effects(p. 195)
• Neo-modernism(p. 205)
• Phenomenological Architecture(p. 210)
• 12 Sustainability and Beyond(p. 215)
• The Green Movement(p. 217)
• McDonough and Yeang(p. 218)
• Green Urbanism(p. 223)
• Biophilic Design(p. 226)
• Neuroaesthetics(p. 229)
• Notes(p. 231)
• Acknowledgments(p. 265)
• Index(p. 266)

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CHOICE Review

Mallgrave and Goodman (both, Illinois Institute of Technology) have taken on the very worthwhile task of summarizing recent architectural theory. This book will provide a unique complement to several annotated anthologies covering this material. By and large, the authors are quite successful: the selection of topics is well considered; the ideas are presented in a clear, reliable, and unbiased manner; and appropriate explanatory information is provided on the sources and consequences of the various theories. The authors have taken on a very difficult task, and one can see them struggling to come to terms with varying sources of ideas that might come from personal manifestos, published histories, or critiques; exhibition catalogues; reports from debates or discussions; or authors' interpretations of built or exhibited work. One can also see the struggle involved in organizing the text into sensible thematic units, and sense the increasing difficulty of the task, as the ideas become increasingly complex and the narrative moves closer to the present. Despite these challenges, the authors deliver a well-written, highly accessible introduction to recent architectural theory. The footnotes make the book a good starting point for a more detailed exploration of the topic. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. D. Sachs Kansas State University

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Harry Francis Mallgrave is a professor of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and editor. His most recent publications include Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 (2005), the two volumes of Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005-8, volume 2 with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos), and The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell. 2010).
David Goodman is Studio Associate Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and at Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook.