Introduction to Architectural Theory

Harry Francis Mallgrave is Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include The Architect's Brain (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, Architectural Theory Volume I: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Wiley-Blackwell 2005) and, with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos, Architectural Theory Volume II: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). David Goodman is Studio Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Boston Architectural College. His work has appeared in the journal Log, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern University Press publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook.

• List of Illustrations viiiPrelude: The 1960s 1Technology and Ecology 3Social Underpinnings of Modernism 61968 11Part One: 1970s 151 Pars Destruens: 1968–1973 17Venturi and Scott Brown 18Rossi and Tafuri 23The Milan Triennale 27The IAUS and the New York Five 302 The Crisis of Meaning 37Semiotics and Architecture 39Five on Five 43Gray and White 45Variations on a Theme 483 Early Postmodernism 53The Language of Postmodernism 54Consummation in Venice 57European Counterpoints 594 Modernism Abides 65The Chicago High-Rise 65German Engineering 70British Renaissance 74Post-Metabolism in Japan 79The Special Case of Alexander 85Part Two: 1980s 895 Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism 91Postmodernism Further Defined 91Postmodernism Opposed 94Critical Regionalism and Phenomenology 97Mérida and Venice 1026 Traditionalism and New Urbanism 108The Prince of Architecture 108The Paternoster Controversy 111Toward a New Urbanism 1157 Gilded Age of Theory 123Poststructural Theory 123Poststructural Architecture 129Eisenman and Tschumi 1318 Deconstruction 141Postmodernism Undefined 142Gehry 146The 68ers Come of Age 149“… a devious architecture …” 154Part Three: 1990s and Present 1599 Wake of the Storm 161Fragments of Fragments 161From Derrida to Deleuze 164Geometry and Autonomy 167The End of the Figure: Manipulated Grounds 171Form without Rhetoric 17410 Pragmatism and Post-Criticality 177OMA 177The Orange Revolution 185Post-Criticality 19211 Minimalisms 194Materiality and Effects 195Neo-modernism 205Phenomenological Architecture 21012 Sustainability and Beyond 215The Green Movement 217McDonough and Yeang 218Green Urbanism 223Biophilic Design 226Neuroaesthetics 229Notes 231Acknowledgments 265Index 266

"This book will provide a unique complement to several annotated anthologies covering this material. . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers." (Choice, 1 October 2011)