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Multiple themes—including the impact of digital technologies on processes of architectural design, production, materiality, and representation; the implications of globalization and networks of information; the growing emphasis on sustainable and green architecture; and the phenomenon of the "starchitect" and iconic architecture—overlap to address the contemporary situation as a whole. By providing, in one place, the keytheoretical texts of the past fifteen years, Constructing a New Agenda becomes a foundation for ongoing discussions surrounding contemporary architectural thought and practice. Contributions by distinguished thinkers and makers such as Stan Allen, Deborah Berke, Michael Braungart, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Greg Lynn, Reinhold Martin, William McDonough, William Mitchell, Samuel Mockbee, Glenn Murcutt, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, Michael Speaks and Anthony Vidler are preceded by brief introductions that establish each essay's particular historical context and significance. An afterword by preeminent architectural theorist K. Michael Hays reflects on where architectural theory is today and where it's headed in the future.
Acknowledgments 11
Preface 12
Introduction 14
Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant, and the Supple (1993) Greg Lynn 30
Charter of the New Urbanism (1996): Congress for the new urbanism 62
Thoughts on the Everyday (1997) Deborah Berke 70
Mach 1 (and Other Mystic Visitations) (1997) Sanford Kwinter 78
A New Pragmatism? (1998) John Rajchman 90
The Rural Studio (1998) Samuel Mockbee 105
Field Conditions (1999) Stan Allen 116
Junkspace (2000) Rem Koolhaas 134
The Cunning of Cosmetics (2000) Jeffrey Kipnis 152
Green Questionnaire (2001) Norman Foster Jan Kaplicky Richard Rogers Ken Yeang Thomas Herzog 165
Scale and Span in a Global Digital World (2001) Saskia Sassen 176
Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism (2002) Robert Somol Sarah Whiting 188
Design Intelligence (2002) Michael Speaks 204
From Principles to Practices: Creating a Sustaining Architecture for the Twenty-first Century (2003) William McDonough Michael Braungart 216
Boundaries/Networks (2003) William J. Mitchell 226
Future City (2003) Fredric Jameson 246
Architecture and the Virtual: Towards a New Materiality (2004) Antoine Picon 268
No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture…and Its Limitations (2004/5) Roemer van Toorn 290
Architecture's Expanded Field (2005) Anthony Vidler 318
Architecture by Numbers (2005) K. Michael Hays 332
Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism (2005) Reinhold Martin 346
Technology, Place, and Nonmodern Regionalism (2005) Steven A. Moore 363
Raised to Observe: Glenn Murcutt (2005) Glenn Murcutt Cynthia Davidson 385
On Criticality (2006) Arie Graafland 394
Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation (2006) Karl S. Chu 421
Introduction to Atlas of Novel Tectonics (2006) Reiser + Umemoto 434
Practice Makes Perfect (2006/7) Sylvia Lavin 447
Ru(m)inations: The Haunts of Contemporary Architecture (2008) John Mcmorrough 460
Afterword K. Michael Hays 472
Contributors' Biographies 477
Selected Bibliography 485
Index 489
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