ABSTRACT

Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.
Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory from a broader cultural perspective.
The book represents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture. As such, Rethinking Architecture provides invaluable core source material for students on a range of courses.

chapter |3 pages

Part I Modernism

chapter |3 pages

Georges Bataille

chapter |19 pages

Walter Benjamin

chapter |9 pages

Ernst Bloch

chapter |13 pages

Siegfried Kracauer

chapter |15 pages

Georg Simmel

chapter |3 pages

Part II Phenomenology

chapter |26 pages

Martin Heidegger

chapter |12 pages

Hans-Georg-Gadamer

chapter |8 pages

Henri Lefebvre

chapter |14 pages

Ganni Vattimo

chapter |4 pages

Part III Structuralism

chapter |15 pages

Roland Barthes

chapter |23 pages

Umberto Eco

chapter |3 pages

PART IV POSTMODERNISM

chapter |10 pages

Jürgen Habermas

chapter |32 pages

Fredric Jameson

chapter |10 pages

Jean-François Lyotard

chapter |3 pages

Part V Poststructuralism

chapter |6 pages

Hélène Cixous

chapter |8 pages

Gilles Deleuze

chapter |29 pages

Jacques Derrida

chapter |29 pages

Michel Foucault

chapter |11 pages

Paul Virilio

chapter |3 pages

Sources

chapter |6 pages

Selected Bibliography of major writings