Readings

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2 Megacities

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem. "Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis… or Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa." In S, M, L, XL. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 1885254865.

Buy at Amazon Lee, Ching Kwan. "Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism; Different Cultural Logics in Labour Control." In Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. Edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 0415915430.

3 Blobs, Curves and the Formless

Buy at Amazon Lynn, Greg. "Animate Form." In Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568980833.

Buy at Amazon Krauss, Rosalind, and Yves-Alain Bois. Introduction - "The Use Value of the Formless," and Conclusion - "The Destiny of the Informe." In Formless: A User's Guide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780942299434.

Suggested Readings

Foster, Hal. "Part 1: Architecture and Design." In Design and Crime. London: Verso, 2002.

4 Theory Outtake 1

Buy at Amazon Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 0415903874.

Buy at Amazon Plant, Sadie. "Anna 1," "Gambling on the Future," "Binaries," "Supporting Evidence," "Genderquake," "Cultures," "Nets," "Digits," "Holes," "Cyborg Manifestoes," "Programming Language," "Shuttle Systems," and "Casting on." In Zeros + Ones. New York: Doubleday, 1997. ISBN: 0385482604.

5 Bodies

Buy at Amazon Fuss, Diana, and Joel Sanders. "Bergasse 19: Inside Freud's Office." In Stud: Architectures of Masculinity. Edited by Joel Sanders. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 1568980760.

Buy at Amazon Djebar, Assia. "Postface: Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound." In Women of Algiers in Their Apartment. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1992. ISBN: 0813914027.

6 CTRL [Space]

Buy at Amazon Keenan, Thomas. "Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, 'Humanitarian Intervention." In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262621656.

Buy at Amazon Wodiczko, Krzysztof. "Designing for the City of Strangers." In Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262731225.

Suggested Readings

Manovich, Lev. "Modern Surveillance Machines: Perspective, Radar, 3-D Computer Graphics, and Computer Vision." In CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Edited by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, and Peter Weibel. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

7 Environmentalism

Buy at Amazon "Access to Tools." In The Original Whole Earth Catalogue, Special 30th Anniversary Issue. Edited by Stewart Brand, and Peter Warshall. Whole Earth, 1998. ISBN: 1892907054.

Reinhold, Martin. "Environment, c. 1971." In Grey Room 14 (Winter 2004).

Buy at Amazon Papanek, Victor. "Environmental Design: Pollution, Crowding, Ecology." Chapter 10 in Design for the Real World. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984. ISBN: 0897331532.

 

8 Architecture and Deconstruction

Buy at MIT Press Derrida, Jacques. "Point de folie - Maintenant l'architecture." La Case Vide: La Villete (1985). Edited by Bernard Tschumi.
Reprinted in Buy at Amazon Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Speaks, Michael. "Negotiating the Hypertext: Bernard Tschumi's La Villette." In Context and Modernity. Papers from the Delft International Working Seminar on Critical Regionalism, 12-15 June 1990.

Suggested Readings

Buy at MIT Press Evans, Robin. "Persistent Breakage." In The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

9 The New York Five

Buy at Amazon Eisenman, Peter. "Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign." In Oppositions Reader. Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rowe, Colin. Introduction to Five Architects. Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Suggested Reading

Buy at MIT Press Rowe, Colin. "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa." In The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982.

10 First Interim Exam  
11 Architecture and Post-Modernism

Buy at Amazon Jencks, Charles. "Part Three: Post-Modern Architecture." In The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. 6th ed. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. ISBN: 0847813592.

Buy at Amazon Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: The Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X.

Buy at Amazon Huyssen, Andreas. "Mapping the Postmodern." In A Post-Modern Reader. Edited by Charles Jencks. London: Academy Editions, 1982. ISBN: 1854901079.

Suggested Readings

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Habermas, Jürgen. "Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture." In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays, 1981 reprint. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 412-426.

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Ecstasy of Communication." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983.

12 Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism

Buy at Amazon Frampton, Kenneth. "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance." In The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1983. ISBN: 094192002X.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon ———. "The Status of Man and his Objects." Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Suggested Readings

Lefaivre, Liane, and Alexander Tzonis. "Why Critical Regionalism Today?" In Architecture + Urbanism, May 1990.

13 Modernisms Elsewhere

Buy at Amazon Fraser, Valerie. "Brazil." In Building The New World: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960. London: Verso, 2000. ISBN: 1859843077.

Buy at Amazon Elleh, Nnamdi. "Architecture and Nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994." In The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001. ISBN: 3791325027.

Suggested Readings

Buy at Amazon Eleb, Monique: "An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism: Écochard, Candilis and ATBAT-Afrique." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

Serageldin, Ismail. "The Architecture of Empowerment: A Survey." In The Architecture of Empowerment. London: Academy Editions, 1997.

14 Vernacularism

Buy at Amazon Rudofsky, Bernard. Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture. Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, 1988. ISBN: 0826310044.

Buy at Amazon Rapoport, Amos. "Alternative Theories of House Form," and "Socio-cultural Factors and House Form." Chapter 2, and 3 in House Form and Culture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. ISBN: 0133956733.

 

15 Critiques of Modernism

Buy at Amazon Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 10-74. ISBN: 0195019199.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Selections from Collage City. Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Buy at MIT PressBuy at Amazon Lynch, Kevin. "City Form," Chapter IV in The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960. ISBN: 9780262620017.

 

Suggested Readings

Jane Jacobs. Selections from Death and Life of American Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1963. Chapters 6, 8, 13, 16.

16 Theory Outtake 2

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon McLuhan, Marshall and Lewis H. Lapham. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780262631594.

Wiener, Norbert. Chapter I, "Cybernetics in History," and Chapter II, "Progress and Entropy." In The Human Use of Human Being: Cybernetics and Society. New York: Doubleday, 1954.

17 Phenomenology and Place

Frampton, Kenneth. "On Heidegger." Oppositions 4, October 1974.

Buy at Amazon Norberg-Schulz, Christian. "The Phenomenon of Place." In Architecture Association Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1976). Reprinted in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture. Edited by Kate Nesbitt. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN: 156898054X.

Suggested Readings

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.

18 Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn

Buy at Amazon Kahn, Louis. "Monumentality." In Architecture Culture 1943-1968. Edited by Joan Ockman with Edward Eigen. New York: Columbia Books of Architecture/Rizzoli, 1993. ISBN: 0847815226.

Bonnefoi, Christian. "Louis Kahn and Minimalism." Oppositions 24, Spring 1981.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. "Kahn, Heidegger, and the Language of Architecture." Oppositions 18, Fall 1979.

Suggested Readings

Lobell, Mimi. "Kahn, Penn and the Philadelphia School." Oppositions 4, October 1974.

19 Second Interim Exam  
20 Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown

Buy at Amazon Venturi, Robert. Selections from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977. ISBN: 0870702815.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. "Theory of Ugly and Ordinary and Related and Contrary Theories." In Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977, 1972. ISBN: 9780262220200.

Suggested Readings

Scott Brown, Denise. "Learning from Pop." In Casabella 35, no. 359-360 (December 1971).

21 Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory

Buy at Amazon Rossi, Aldo. "The Structure of Urban Artifacts." Chapter 1 in The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610.

Buy at Amazon Moneo, Rafael. "The Idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery." Oppositions 5. Reprinted in The Oppositions Reader. Edited by K. Michael Hays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. ISBN: 1568981538.

Buy at Amazon Tafuri, Manfredo. "The 'Case' of Aldo Rossi." In History of Italian Architecture, 1944-1985. Translated by Jessica Levine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780262200677.

Suggested Readings

Buy at Amazon Rossi, Aldo. "The Individuality of Urban Artifacts; Architecture." Chapter 3 in The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780954836610.

22 Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School

Buy at Amazon Tafuri, Manfredo. "L'architecture dans le boudoir." In The Sphere and the Labyrinth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780262700399.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Cohen, Jean-Louis. "The Italophiles at Work." Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Suggested Readings

Buy at MIT Press Tafuri, Manfredo. "Architecture and its Double: Semiology and Formalism." In Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. Translated by Barbara Luigia La Penta. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.

23 Theory Outtake 3

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. "The Subject and Power," and "Space, Knowledge and Power." In Power Vol. 3 of the Essential Works of Focault, 1954-1984. Series Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: The New Press, 2000. ISBN: 1565847091.

Buy at Amazon Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." In Lenin and Philosophy. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. ISBN: 0902308122.

24 Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds

Buy at Amazon Lang, Peter, and William Menking. "Only Architecture Will Be Our Lives." In Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Edited by Peter Lang, and William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Suicidal Desires." In Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Edited by Peter Lang, William Menking. Milan: Skira, 2003. ISBN: 8884915694.

Buy at Amazon Ambasz, Emilio, ed. "Counterdesign As Postulation." In Italy: The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972, pp. 223-265. ISBN: 0870703935.

25 1968

Buy at Amazon Genevro, Rosalie. "Introduction." The Inflatable Moment : Pneumatics and Protest in '68. Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767.

Buy at Amazon Dessauce, Marc. "On Pneumatic Apparitions." In The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68. Edited by Marc Dessauce. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. ISBN: 1568981767.

Tschumi, Bernard, and Martin Pawley. "The Beaux-Arts Since '68." Architectural Design, July 1971.

26 Traces on the City

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Sadler, Simon. "Formulary for a New Urbanism: Rethinking the City." Chapter 2 in The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780262193924.

Buy at Amazon Wigley, Mark. "The Hyper-Architecture of Desire." In Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire. Rotterdam: Center for Contemporary Art, 1998. ISBN: 9064503435.

Suggested Readings

Buy at Amazon Violeau, Jean-Louis. "A Critique of Architecture: The Bitter Victory of the Situationist International." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

27 Technofantasy / Megastructure

Buy at Amazon Banham, Reyner. "Fun and Flexibility," and "Epilogue: The Meaning of Megastructure." Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 in Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. ISBN: 0500340684.

Buy at Amazon Lopsinger, Mary Louise: "Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance - Cedric Price's Fun Palace." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262072083.

28 Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State

Smithson, Alison, ed. "CIAM/Team 10." Architectural Design. May 1960, pp. 175-207.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Mumford, Eric. "From the 'Heart of the City' to the End of CIAM." In The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262133647.

29 Final Paper (4500 words) Due