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"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network "Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, intentions and ways of knowing. This handbook provides a lucid and comprehensive introduction to this challenging and shifting terrain, and will be of great interest to students, academics and practitioners alike."- Professor Iain Borden, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture"In this collection, architectural theory expands outward to interact with adjacent discourses such as sustainability, conservation, spatial practices, virtual technologies, and more. We have in The Handbook of Architectural Theory an example of the extreme generosity of architectural theory. It is a volume that designers and scholars of many stripes will welcome."- K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, Harvard UniversityThe SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory documents and builds upon the most innovative developments in architectural theory over the last two decades. Bringing into dialogue a range of geographically, institutionally and historically competing positions, it examines and explores parallel debates in related fields. The book is divided into eight sections: Power/Difference/Embodiment Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess Nation/World/Spectacle History/Memory/Tradition Design/Production/Practice Science/Technology/Virtuality Nature/Ecology/Sustainability City/Metropolis/Territory. Creating openings for future lines of inquiry and establishing the basis for new directions for education, research and practice, the book is organized around specific case studies to provide a critical, interpretive and speculative enquiry into the relevant debates in architectural theory.

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• List of Contributors(p. ix)
• Preface and Acknowledgments(p. xvii)
• Introduction - 1: Architectural Theory in an Expanded Field(p. 1)
• Introduction - 2: Reading the Handbook(p. 23)
• Section 1 Power/Difference/Embodiment(p. 39)
• 1 Introduction: Shifting Paradigms and Concerns(p. 41)
• 2 Architecture, Capitalism and Criticality(p. 56)
• 3 Interrogating Difference: Postcolonial Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism(p. 70)
• 4 Tendencies and Trajectories: Feminist Approaches in Architecture(p. 85)
• Section 1 Bibliography(p. 98)
• 5 Citizenship(p. 107)
• Section 2 Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess(p. 121)
• 6 Introduction: Architecture and Aesthetics(p. 123)
• 7 Architectural Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern(p. 136)
• 8 Formalism and Forms of Practice(p. 152)
• 9 Art in (and of) Architecture: Autonomy and Medium(p. 165)
• Section 2 Bibliography(p. 177)
• 10 Consumption(p. 184)
• Section 3 Nation/World/Spectacle(p. 199)
• 11 Introduction: Enacdng Modernity(p. 201)
• 12 Rethinking the Nation(p. 213)
• 13 Entangled Modernities in Architecture(p. 231)
• 14 Notes on the Society of the Brand(p. 247)
• Section 3 Bibliography(p. 264)
• 15 Heritage(p. 274)
• Section 4 History/Memory/Tradition(p. 287)
• 16 Introduction: Time's Arrows: Spaces of the Past(p. 289)
• 17 Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity(p. 308)
• 18 Collective Memory Under Siege: The Case of 'Heritage Terrorism'(p. 325)
• 19 Concepts of Vernacular Architecture(p. 340)
• Section 4 Bibliography(p. 356)
• 20 Culture(p. 369)
• Section 5 Design/Production/Practice(p. 383)
• 21 Introduction: Architecture's Double-Bind(p. 385)
• 22 Prometheus Unchained: The Multiple Itineraries of Contemporary Professional Freedom(p. 393)
• 23 Manners of Working: Fabricating Representation in Digital Based Design(p. 410)
• 24 Plural Profession, Discrepant Practices(p. 430)
• Section 5 Bibliography(p. 444)
• 25 Flows(p. 451)
• Section 6 Science/Technology/Virtuality(p. 465)
• 26 Introduction: Technology, Science and Virtuality(p. 467)
• 27 Virtual Architecture, Actual Media(p. 484)
• 28 Technology, Virtuality, Materiality(p. 501)
• 29 Architecture, Technology and the Body: From the Prehuman to the Posthuman(p. 513)
• Section 6 Bibliography(p. 527)
• 30 Infrastructure(p. 534)
• Section 7 Nature/Ecology/Sustain Ability(p. 553)
• 31 Introduction: Whither 'Earthly' Architectures: Constructing Sustainability(p. 555)
• 32 The Ecology Question and Architecture(p. 573)
• 33 Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in the Renewable City(p. 590)
• 34 Tropical Variants of Sustainable Architecture: A Postcolonial Perspective(p. 602)
• Section 7 Bibliography(p. 618)
• 35 Landscapes(p. 625)
• Section 8 City/Metropolis/Territory(p. 639)
• 36 Introduction: Metropolis, Megalopolis and Metacity(p. 641)
• 37 The Contemporary European Urban Project: Archipelago City, Diffuse City and Reverse City(p. 657)
• 38 Slum as Theory: Mega-Cities and Urban Models(p. 671)
• 39 Common Lines of Flight Towards the Open City(p. 687)
• Section 8 Bibliography(p. 704)
• 40 Housing(p. 711)
• Index(p. 725)

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CHOICE Review

This book is the result of lengthy, ambitious, well-conceived, and well-executed efforts by European and American editors to compile a comprehensive, broadminded overview of late-20th- and early-21st-century architectural theory. It begins with a brief introduction by the editors and an introductory essay explaining the book's overall order and content. Eight topically ordered sections follow, each of which is organized around three evocative ideas. These sections include an introduction by a subeditor that provides background and context, three invited essays, and a bibliography. Additionally, an illustrated discussion of buildings or projects illuminates the ideas discussed in each specific section. The detailed index is helpful. The roster is impressive. Each contributor responds in a thoughtful, insightful, and provocative way to the editorial challenge, often providing alternative views of the questions at hand. This book should be of value to a variety of people with different interests and from different disciplines. Some will be drawn to specific essays or sections, some will find the book to be a reliable reference, and others will enjoy the totality of the effort. Overall, it provides an effective benchmark of contemporary architectural thinking. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above. D. Sachs Kansas State University

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C. Greig Crysler is Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen Cairns is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Edinburgh, and Scientific Co-ordinator of the Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability.
Hilde Heynen is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning (ASRO), at K.U. Leuven, Belgium.