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Book SynopsisRajesh Heynickx is a Professor in Architectural Theory and Intellectual History at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Ricardo Costa Agarez is Assistant Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the University of Évora, Portugal.
Elke Couchez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hasselt, Belgium.
Trade ReviewBuildings stay still, but theory is always on the move. This simple fact, often noticed but little acted upon, is one of the two catalysts for this engaging collection of essays on architecture’s recent past. The other - the chronic uncertainty as to whether architecture is at heart a practical, or a theoretical, discipline - is exploited to good effect through a series of lively and provocative discussions. * Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, UCL, UK *
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Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries, the figure of the architect, the historian, the theorist is refreshingly reconfigured as one of the many players in a nexus of relationships between ideas, texts, exhibitions, lectures, dialogical practices and people. * Sophia Psarra, Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design, UCL, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction
Part One: Translations and Appropriations 1. Deconstruction and Architecture: translation as a matter of speculative theory 2. Gehry’s Lou Ruvo Center in Las Vegas as a Housing Critique 3. “Boomerang Effect”: The Repercussions of Critical Regionalism in 1980s Greece 4.The Autonomy of Theory: Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin, ETH Zurich, 1975
SECTION 2: Imprints and Undercurrents 5. Royston Landau and the Research Programmes of Architecture 6. Theoretical a/gnosticisms: Paul Tillich, Colin Rowe, and the theology of architecture
SECTION 3: Vehicles 7. Cedric Price's Chats: Orality and the Production of Architectural Theory 8. Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture 9. Abandoning the Plan 10. Deltiology as History. Informal Communication as Praxis. 11. Theorizing from the South. The Seminar of Latin American Architecture (SAL) Index
