Architecture Theory since 1968
- Paperback
824 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2000
Summary
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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262581882 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262581884 |
| Author: | K. Michael Hays |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 824 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 1.91kg |
| Dimensions: | 267mm x 191mm x 44mm |
| Series: | Architecture Theory since 1968 |
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If his masterwork becomes universally adopted by schools of architecture, Hays may yet reverse the current situation where it is rare to find two architects in the same room who have read anything in common at all.
– Isabel Allen * Architects Journal *Hays has done architectural discourse a great service…this collection insistently raises important questions and helps us elucidate problems that might not have otherwise occurred to us.
– John Biln * Architecture *About The Author
K. Michael Hays
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.
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