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Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.
Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory from a broader cultural perspective.
The book represents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture. As such, Rethinking Architecture provides invaluable core source material for students on a range of courses.

This book brings together the core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth century - the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and experiences of architecture.

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CONTENTS

Preface = ⅶ

Acknowledgments = ⅸ

Introduction = xiii

PART Ⅰ MODERNISM

 Functionalism Today / Theodor W. Adorno = 6

 Architecture / Georges Bataille = 21

 Slaughterhouse = 22

 Museum = 22

 On Some Motifs in Baudelaire / Walter Benjamin = 25

 Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century = 33

 Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament / Ernst Bloch = 43

 The Hotel Lobby On Employment Agencies : The Construction of a Space / Siegfried Kracauer = 53

 On Employment Agencies : The Construction of a Space = 59

 ridge and Door / Georg Simmel = 66

 The Metropolis and Mental Life = 69

PART Ⅱ PHENOMENOLOGY

 Poetics of Space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard = 86

 Building, Dwelling, Thinking / Martin Heidegger = 100

 ... Poetically Man Dwells.. = 109

 The Origin of the Work of Art (extracts) = 119

 Art and Space = 121

 The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer = 126

 The Production of Space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre = 139

 The End of Modernity, The End of The Project? / Gianni Vattimo = 148

 Ornament／Monument = 155

PART Ⅲ STRUCTURALISM

 Semiology and the Urban / Roland Barthes = 166

 The Eiffel Tower = 172

 Function and Sign : The Semiotics of Architecture / Umberto Eco = 182

 How an Exposition Exposes Itself = 202

PART Ⅳ POSTMODERNISM

 The Beaubourg-effect : Implosion and Deterrence / Jean Baudrillard = 210

 America = 218

 Modern and Postmodern Architecture / J$$\ddot u$$rgen Habermas = 227

 The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / Fredric Jameson = 238

 The Constraints of Postmodernism (extract) = 247

 Is Space Political? = 255

 Domus and the Megalopolis / Jean-Francois Lyotard = 271

PART Ⅴ POSTSTRUCTURALISM

 Eisenman and the Housing of Tradition / Andrew Benjamin = 286

 Attacks of the Castle / H$$e'$$l$$\bprime e$$ne Cixous = 303

 Postscript on the Societies of Control / Gilles Deleuze = 309

 City/State (with F$$e'$$lix Guattari) = 313

 Architecture Where the Desire May Live (Interview) / Jacques Derrida = 319

 Point de Folie - maintenant l'architecture = 324

 Why Peter Eisenman Writes Such Good Books = 336

 Of Other Spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias / Michel Foucault = 350

 Panopticism (extract) = 356

 Space, Knowledge and Power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) = 367

 The Overexposed City / Paul Virilio = 381

Sources = 391

Selected Bibliography of Major Writings = 395

Index = 403