Rethinking architecture : a reader in cultural theory / edited by Neil Leach.
| Other author | Leach, Neil. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 1997. |
| Description | xxi, 409 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Functionalism today / Theodor W. Adorno -- Architecture ; Slaughterhouse ; Museum / Georges Bataille -- On some motifs in Baudelaire ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin -- Formative education, engineering form, ornament / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby ; On employment agencies ; the construction of a space / Siegfried Kracauer -- Bridge and door ; The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Poetics of space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard -- Building, dwelling, thinking ; ...Poetically man dwells... ; The origin of the work of art (extracts) ; Art and space / Martin Heidegger -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The production of space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre -- The end of modernity, the end of the project? ; Ornament/monument / Gianni Vattimo -- Semiology and the urban ; The Eiffel Tower / Roland Barthes -- Function and sign : the semiotics of architecture ; How an exposition exposes itself / Umberto Eco -- The Beaubourg-effect : implosion and deterrence ; America / Jean Baudrillard -- Modern and postmodern architecture / Jürgen Habermas -- The cultural logic of late capitalism ; The constraints of postmodernism (extract) ; Is space political? / Fredric Jameson -- Domus and the megalopolis / Jean-François Lyotard -- Aisenmann and the housing of tradition / Andrew Benjamin -- Attacks of the castle / Hélène Cixous -- Postscript on the societies of control ; City/state (with Félix Guattari) / Gilles Deleuze -- Architecture where the desire may live (interview) ; Point de folie : maintenant l'architecture ; Why Peter Eisenman writes such good books / Jacques Derrida -- Of other spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias ; Panopticism (extract) ; Space, knowledge and power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) / Michel Foucault -- The overexposed city / Paul Virilio. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 96019406 |
| ISBN | 0415128250 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0415128269 (paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | NA2500 .R46 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |