Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 – 1995

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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume essentially the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.

A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, that means, history, and the town. Some of the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism.

By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of significant value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and most people, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a crucial introduction to each and every essay.

The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a “Who’s Who” of latest architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol-Morales Rubi, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on the entire contributors are also included.

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