The Figure of Knowledge
Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
Edited by Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen
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It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.
Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made.
The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.Contributors: Matthew Allen (University of Toronto), Karen Burns (University of Melbourne), Ole W. Fischer (University of Utah), Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Rajesh Heynickx (KU Leuven), Paul Holmquist (Louisiana State University), Sandra Kaji-O’Grady (University of Queensland), Peter Lang (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm), André Loeckx (KU Leuven), Sebastiaan Loosen (KU Leuven), Louis Martin (Université du Québec à Montréal), Joan Ockman (University of Pennsylvania), Carmen Popescu (ENSAB, Rennes), Ricardo Ruivo (Architectural Association, London), Andrew Toland (University of Technology Sydney).
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INTRODUCTION
The Shifting
Contours of Postwar Architectural Theory
Sebastiaan
Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen
SECTION 1: Modernism and its Discontents
Meaning and
Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in Architecture
André Loeckx
and Hilde Heynen
A Voice from
the Margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s Architecture Culture
Philip Goad
Contaminations:
Art, Architecture, and the Critical Vision of Lara-Vinca Masini
Peter Lang
Architecture
Becomes Programming: Invisible Technicians, Printouts, and Situated Theories
in the 1960s
Matthew Allen
Troubled
Dialogues: Intellectuality at a Crossroads at the Carrefour de l’Europe in Brussels
Sebastiaan Loosen
SECTION 2: Projects of Theory
Institutionalized
Critique? On the Re(birth) of Architectural Theory after Modernism: ETH
and MIT Compared
Ole W. Fischer
Thinking
Architecture, its Theory and History: A Case Study about Melvin Charney
Louis Martin
Dirtying the
Real: Liane Lefaivre and the Architectural Stalemate with Emerging
Realities
Andrew Toland
Between Making
and Acting: The Inherent Ambivalence of Arendtian Architectural
Theory
Paul Holmquist
Critical
Regionalism: A not so Critical Theory
Carmen Popescu
SECTION 3: The Misuses of History
The
Historiographical Invention of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Cultural
Politics and the Return of the Lost Project
Ricardo Ruivo
Effete,
Effeminate, Feminist: Feminizing Architecture Theory
Sandra Kaji-O’Grady
Anthologizing
Post-Structuralism: Architecture Ecriture, Gender, and
Subjectivity
Karen Burns
Consequences
of Pragmatism: A Retrospect on “The Pragmatist Imagination”
Joan Ockman
CODA
A Discipline
in the Making
Hilde Heynen
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 234 × 156 × 17 mm
321 pages
ISBN: 9789462702240
Publication: September 30, 2020
Languages: English
Stock item number: 137673
Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.
Sebastiaan Loosen is a postdoctoral researcher at the KTH Stockholm.
“le livre offre une vision précise et ample, à la fois érudite et accessible, de l’histoire intellectuelle de l’architecture de ces décennies de bascule, dont les années 1960 constituent le point d’orgue, qui virent les architectes partir à la reconquête de leur statut d’intellectuel. […] ‘The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s-1990s’ montre, si besoin était, qu’il est possible, pour peu d’agir avec méthode, d’écrire l’histoire d’une matière aussi intangible que la pensée architecturale.“
Eléonore Marantz, Critique d’art, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/86655 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.86655