Architectural Theory: Volume II - An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 / Editors, Harry Francis Mallgrave and Christina Contandriopoulos

TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Introduction.

PART I: EARLY MODERNISM.

A: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Introduction.

1. John Ruskin from Fors Clavigera (1871).

2. Christopher Dresser from Studies in Design (1874-76).

3. Richard Redgrave from Manual of Design (1876).

4. William Morris from The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization (1881).

5. Christopher Dresser from Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufacturers (1882).

6. Oscar Wilde from Art and the Handicraftsman (1882).

Etc.

B: CONTINENTAL REFORMS.

Introduction.

13. Jakob Falke from Art in the House (1871).

14. George Hirth from The German Renaissance Room (1880).

15. Robert Dohme from The English House (1888).

16. Cornelius Gurlitt from Inside the Middle-Class House (1888).

17. Louis-Charles Boileau from Shops of the Bon Marché in Paris—Grand Staircase (1876).

Etc.

C: REFORMS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Introduction.

26. Henry Hudson Holly from Modern Dwellings: Their Construction, Decoration, and Furniture (1876).

27. Robert Swain Peabody from Georgian Homes of New England (1877).

28. Clarence Cook from House Beautiful (1877).

29. Leopold Eidlitz from The Nature and Function of Art: More Especially of Architecture (1881).

30. Louis Sullivan from Characteristic and Tendencies of American Architecture (1885).

31. George William Sheldon from Artistic Country-Seats (1886).

Etc.

D: CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS 0F GERMAN MODERNISM: SPACE, FORM, AND REALISM.

Introduction.

38. Richard Lucae from On the Aesthetic Development of Iron Construction, especially its Use in Spaces of a Significant Span (1870).

39. Friedrich Nietzsche from The Use and Abuse of History (1872).

40. Robert Vischer from On the Optical Sense of Form (1872).

41. Constantine Lipsius from On the Aesthetic Treatment of Iron in Tall Building (1878).

42. Conrad Fiedler from Observations on the Nature and History of Architecture (1878).

43. Hans Auer from The Development of Space in Architecture (1883).

44. Josef Bayer from Style Crisis of our Time (1886).

Etc..

PART II: THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT 1894-1914.

A: THE WAGNER SCHOOL AND THE GERMAN WERKBUD.

Introduction.

51. Otto Wagner from Inaugural Address to the Academy of Fine Arts (1894).

52. Max Fabiani from Out of the Wagner School (1895).

53. Julius Lessing from New Paths (1895).

54. Richard Streiter from Out of Munich (1896).

55. Otto Wagner from Modern Architecture (1896).

56. Richard Streiter from Contemporary Architectural Questions (1898).

Etc.

B: EUROPEAN MODERNISM ELSEWHERE.

Introduction.

67. Camillo Boito from On the Future Style of Italian Architecture (1880).

68. Hendrik P. Berlage from Architecture and Impressionism (1894).

69. Ebenezer Howard from To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898).

70. Henry van de Velde from The New Ornament (1901).

71. Henry van de Velde from Clarification of Principles (1902).

Etc.

C: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL.

Introduction.

77. Louis Sullivan from The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896).

78. Denkmar Adler from Function and Environment (1896).

79. Oscar Lovell Triggs from Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement (1901).

80. Gustav Stickley from The Craftsman (1901).

81. Frank Lloyd Wright from The Art and Craft of the Machine (1901).

Etc.

PART III: THE 1920s.

A: AMERICAN MODERNISM.

Introduction.

88. Frederick Winslow Taylor from The Principles of Scientific Management (1911).

89. Claude Bragdon from Architecture and Democracy (1918).

90. Irving K. Pond from Zoning and the Architecture of High Buildings (1921).

91. Hugh Ferris from The New Architecture (1922).

92. Chicago Tribune Announcement of an Architectural Competition (1922).

Etc.

B: SOVIET CONSTRUCTIVISM.

Introduction.

101. V. I. Lenin from The State and Revolution (1917).

102. Vladimir Tatlin et al The Work Ahead of Us (1920).

103. Alexander Rodchenko from Slogans (1921).

104. Aleksei Gan from Constructivism (1922).

105. Moisei Ginzburg from Style and Epoch (1924).

Etc.

C: DE STIJL AND PURISM.

Introduction.

108. Theo van Doesburg et al from Manifesto 1 (1918).

109. Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) from Preface to L'Esprit Nouveau (1920).

110. Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) from Purism (1920).

111. J. J. P. Oud from On the Future Architecture and its Architectural Possibilities (1921).

112. Le Corbusier from Toward an Architecture (1923).

Etc.

D: EXPRESSIONISM AND THE BAUHAUS.

Introduction.

117. Oswald Spengler from The Decline of the West (1918).

118. Hans Poelzig from Address to the Werkbund (1919).

119. Manifesto Work Council for Art (1919).

120. Walter Gropius from Program of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar (1919).

121. Bruno Taut from The Crystal Chain Letters (1919).

Etc.

E: EUROPEAN MODERNIS 1925-1932.

Introduction.

127. Hugo Häring from Paths to Form (1925).

128. Adolf Behne from The Modern Functional Building (1926).

129. Giuseppe Terragni et al The Group 7 (1926).

130. Walter Curt Behrendt from The Victory of the New Style (1927).

131. Ludwig Hilberseimer from International New Architecture (1927).

Etc.

PARTIV: THE POLITICS OF MODERNISM: 1930-1945.

A: TOTALITARIANISM IN EUROPE.

Introduction.

141. German Bestelmeyer et al Manifesto of Der Block (1928).

142. Hannes Meyer from An Open Letter to Lord Mayor Hesse of Dessau (1930).

143. Mies van der Rohe from Announcement to the Students of the Dissolution of the Bauhaus (1933).

144. Albert Speer from Inside the Third Reich (1969).

145. Marcel Breuer from Where Do We Stand? (1935).

Etc.

B: AMERICAN ACADEMIC AND ARCHITECTURAL REFORMS.

Introduction.

152. Joseph Hudnut from The Education of an Architect (1931).

153. Frank Lloyd Wright from The Disappearing City (1932).

154. Lewis Mumford from Technics and Civilization (1934).

155. Catherine Bauer from Modern Housing (1934).

156. Frank Lloyd Wright from The Jacobs House (1938).

Etc.

A: POSTWAR THEORY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Introduction.

163. Philip Johnson from Mies van der Rohe (1947).

164. T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings from Mona Lisa's Mustache (1947).

165. Lewis Mumford from Status Quo (1947).

166. Alfred Barr, Jr. from What is Happening to Modern Architecture (1948).

167. Philip Johnson from The Glass House (1950).

Etc.

B: POSTWAR THEORY IN EUROPE.

Introduction.

173. Bruno Zevi from Towards an Organic Architecture (1945).

174. J. M. Richards from New Empiricism (1947).

175. Colin Rowe from The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa (1947).

176. Bruno Zevi from Architecture as Space (1948).

177. Rudolf Wittkower from Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949).

C: THE RISE AND FALL OF CIAM.

Introduction.

185. J. H. Forshaw & Patrick Abercrombie from County of London Plan (1944).

186. Sigfried Giedion from Reaffirmation of the Aims of CIAM: Bridgewater 1947.

187. J. M. Richards from Contemporary Architecture and the Common Man (1947).

188. Bruno Zevi from A Message to the International Congress of Modern Architecture (1949).

189. Alison and Peter Smithson, Gillian and William Howell, John Voelcker from 'Urban Reidentification' Grid, CIAM, Aix-en-Provence (1953).

Etc.

PARTVI: CRITIQUES OF MODERNISM: 1958-1969.

A: DEATH OF THE AMERICAN CITY.

Introduction.

195. Lewis Mumford from Prefabricated Blight (1948.

196. Kevin Lynch from The Image of the City (1960).

197. Jane Jacobs from The Life and Death of the American City (1961).

198. Lewis Mumford from Mother Jacobs' Home Remedies (1962).

199. Herbert J. Gans from The Urban Villagers (1962).

Etc.

B: RETREATS AND UTOPIANISM.

Introduction.

204. Yona Friedman from Mobile Architecture (1959).

205. Kiyonori Kikutake et al from Metabolism: The Proposals for New urbanism (1960).

206. Reyner Banham from Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960).

207. Archigram Manifesto (1961).

208. Rachel Carson from Silent Spring (1962).

209. Constantinos Doxiadis et al The Declaration of Delos (1963).

Etc.

C: CRITIQUES OF MODERNISM.

215. Reyner Banham from The Italian Retreat from Modern Architecture (1959).

216. Ernesto Nathan Rogers from The Evolution of Architecture: An Answer to the Caretaker of Frigidaires (1959).

217. Aldo van Eyck from Is Architecture Going to Reconcile Basic Values? (1959).

218. Joseph Rykwert from Meaning and Building (1960).

219. Tomás Maldonado from Notes on Communication (1962).

Etc.

PARTVII: THE PROSPECT OF A POSTMODERN THEORY:1969-1979.

A: NEORATIONALISM ANDTHE IAUS.

Introduction.

228. Manfredo Tafuri from Toward a Theory of Critical Ideology (1969).

229. Peter Eisenman from Notes on Conceptual Architecture: Toward a Definition (1970).

230. Colin Rowe from Introduction to Five Architects (1972).

231. Robert A. M. Stern and Jaquelin Robertson from Five on Five (1973).

232. Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas Editorial Statement of Oppositions 1 (1973).

Etc.

B: SEMIOTICS AND PHNOMENOLOGY.

Introduction.

240. Charles Jencks from Semiology and Architecture (1969).

241. George Baird from La 'Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture (1969).

242. Christian Norberg-Schulz from Existence, Space & Architecture (1971).

243. Alan Colquhoun Historicism and the Limits of Semiology (1972).

244. Kenneth Frampton from On Reading Heidegger (1974).

Etc.

C: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES AND DEBATES.

Introduction.

247. Denise Scott Brown from Learning from Pop (1971).

248. Kenneth Frampton from America 1960-1970: Notes on Urban Images and Theory (1971).

249. Herman Hertzberger from Homework for more Hospitable Form (1973).

250. Hassan Fathy from Architecture for the Poor (1973).

251. Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter from Collage City (1975).

Etc.

PART VIII: THE 1980s.

A: POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND DECONSTRUCTION.

257. Jean-François Lyotard from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979).

258. Coop Himmelblau Architecture Must Blaze (1980).

259. Bernard Tschumi from The Manhattan Transcripts (1981).

260. Daniel Libeskind from Symbol and Interpretation (1981).

261. Jürgen Habermas from Modern and Postmodern Architecture (1981).

Etc.

B: POSTMODERN HISTORICISM.

Introduction.

269. Harvard Architectural Review from the inaugural editorial Beyond the Modern Movement (Spring 1980).

270. Robert A. M. Stern from The Doubles of Post-Modern (1980).

271. Maurice Culot Nostalgia, Soul of the Revolution (1980).

272. Aldo van Eyck from Rats, Posts and Pests (1981).

273. Geoffrey Broadbent from The Pests Strike Back! (1981).

Etc.

C: REGIONALISM AND TRADITIONALISM.

Introduction.

280. Bruno Reichlin from Reflections–Interpretations between Concept, Representation and Built Architecture (1981).

281. Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre from The Grid and the Pathway (1981).

282. Demetri Porphyrios from Classicism is not a Style (1982).

283. Vittorio Gregotti The Obsession with History (1982).

284. Alberto Pérez-Gómez Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983).

Etc.

PART IX: MILLENNIAL TENSIONS.

A: TECTONICS AND GEOMETRY.

Introduction.

291. Kenneth Frampton from Rappel a l'ordre: The Case for the Tectonic (1990).

292. Toyo Ito from Vortex and Current: On Architecture as Phenomenalism (1992).

293. Moshen Mostarfavi and David Leatherbarrow from On Weathering (1993).

294. Gilles Deleuze from The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1993).

295. Greg Lynn from Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple (1993).

Etc.

B: THE END OF THEORY.

305. Sylvia Lavin from Essay: The Uses and Abuses of Theory (1990).

306. Jeffrey Kipnis from Rebuttal: Theory Used and Abused (1990).

307. OMA, Rem Koolhaas, & Bruce Mau from Bigness (1994).

308. Winy Maas from Datascape (1994).

309. Juhani Pallasmaa from An Architecture of the Seven Senses (1994).

Etc.

C: BEYOND THE NEW MELLENNIUM.

317. James Wines from Green Dreams (1991).

318. William McDonough Hannover Principles (1992).

319. Bernard Cache from Earth Moves (1995).

320. Ken Yeang from Designing with Nature (1995).

321. Vicotr Papanek from The Green Imperative (1995).

322. James Corner from Eidetic Operations and New Landscape (1999).

Etc.