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Rethinking architecture : a reader in cultural theory / edited by Neil Leach.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: xxi, 409 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415128254
  • 9780415128261
  • 0415128250 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1
LOC classification:
  • .R46 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Functionalism today / Theodor W. Adorno -- Architecture ; Slaughterhouse ; Museum / Georges Bataille -- On some motifs in Baudelaire ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin -- Formative education, engineering form, ornament / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby ; On employment agencies : the construction of a space / Siegfried Kracauer -- Bridge and door ; The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Poetics of space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard -- Building, dwelling, thinking ; --Poetically man dwells-- ; The origin of the work of art (extracts) ; Art and space / Martin Heidegger -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The production of space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre -- The end of modernity, the end of the project? ; Ornament/monument / Gianni Vattimo -- Semiology and the urban ; The Eiffel Tower / Roland Barthes -- Function and sign : the semiotics of architecture ; How an exposition exposes itself / Umberto Eco -- The Beaubourg-effect : implosion and deterrence ; America / Jean Baudrillard -- Modern and postmodern architecture / Jürgen Habermas -- The cultural logic of late capitalism ; The constraints of postmodernism (extract) ; Is space political? / Fredric Jameson -- Domus and the megalopolis / Jean-François Lyotard -- Eisenmann and the housing of tradition / Andrew Benjamin -- Attacks of the castle / Hélène Cixous -- Postscript on the societies of control ; City/state (with Félix Guattari) / Gilles Deleuze -- Architecture where the desire may live (interview) ; Point de folie : maintenant l'architecture ; Why Peter Eisenman writes such good books / Jacques Derrida -- Of other spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias ; Panopticism (extract) ; Space, knowledge and power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) / Michel Foucault -- The overexposed city / Paul Virilio.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 720.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31340
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 720.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 45368

CW027

CW124

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Functionalism today / Theodor W. Adorno -- Architecture ; Slaughterhouse ; Museum / Georges Bataille -- On some motifs in Baudelaire ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin -- Formative education, engineering form, ornament / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby ; On employment agencies : the construction of a space / Siegfried Kracauer -- Bridge and door ; The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Poetics of space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard -- Building, dwelling, thinking ; --Poetically man dwells-- ; The origin of the work of art (extracts) ; Art and space / Martin Heidegger -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The production of space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre -- The end of modernity, the end of the project? ; Ornament/monument / Gianni Vattimo -- Semiology and the urban ; The Eiffel Tower / Roland Barthes -- Function and sign : the semiotics of architecture ; How an exposition exposes itself / Umberto Eco -- The Beaubourg-effect : implosion and deterrence ; America / Jean Baudrillard -- Modern and postmodern architecture / Jürgen Habermas -- The cultural logic of late capitalism ; The constraints of postmodernism (extract) ; Is space political? / Fredric Jameson -- Domus and the megalopolis / Jean-François Lyotard -- Eisenmann and the housing of tradition / Andrew Benjamin -- Attacks of the castle / Hélène Cixous -- Postscript on the societies of control ; City/state (with Félix Guattari) / Gilles Deleuze -- Architecture where the desire may live (interview) ; Point de folie : maintenant l'architecture ; Why Peter Eisenman writes such good books / Jacques Derrida -- Of other spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias ; Panopticism (extract) ; Space, knowledge and power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) / Michel Foucault -- The overexposed city / Paul Virilio.

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