Constructing a New Agenda: Architechtural Theory 1993-2009

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Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s propractice movement, with its mandate to focus on the realities of building, has shifted architectural theory away from utopian ideals and heavy-handed cultural critiques toward the realities of architecture and building. This transition renders theory's immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice. Constructing a New Agenda offers an overview of the ...
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Overview

Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s propractice movement, with its mandate to focus on the realities of building, has shifted architectural theory away from utopian ideals and heavy-handed cultural critiques toward the realities of architecture and building. This transition renders theory's immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought and practice. Constructing a New Agenda offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era. In this long-awaited follow-up to our critically acclaimed and best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda, editor A. Krista Sykes collects twenty-eight essays that address architectural theory from the mid-1990s, where the first volume left off, through the present.

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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781568988597
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Publication date: 3/31/2010
  • Pages: 512
  • Sales rank: 943,765
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.40 (d)

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A. Krista Sykes is an independent scholar living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Table of Contents

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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