The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Haddad, Elie G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, seventeen original contributions address the relevance of architectural theory in the contemporary world from various perspectives, including but not limited to: politics, gender, representation, race, environmental crisis, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000737479
• Artikelnr.: 65547528

Autorenporträt

Elie G. Haddad is Professor of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, where he is currently Dean of the School of Architecture and Design. Haddad completed his PhD studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 with a dissertation on Henry van de Velde. His research focuses on architectural theory, urbanism, and modern architecture. In 2014, Haddad co-edited a survey on contemporary architecture and is in the process of finalizing a new volume titled Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era (forthcoming). In parallel to his academic activities, Haddad was recently elected as President of the Association of Arab Architects.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword PART I. Historical Perspectives on Architectural Theory 1. What
ever Became of Architectural Theory? 2. Architecture's Historiographical
Turn 3. Erase the Traces! History and Destruction in Brecht, Benjamin, and
Tafuri 4. The End of Theory and the Division between History and Design 5.
Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against
Entrepreneurialism 6. Building Without End: The Travails of Archè and
Téchne 7. The Theory Nobody Knows 8. Theorizing a Modern Tradition 9.
Postmodernist Revivalism and Architectural Gimmicks PART II. Alternative
Visions and New Directions 10. The Form of Utopia: Architectural Theory in
the age of Hyperobjects 11. Senses of Reality, or: Realism and Aesthetics,
Today? 12. On the Use and Abuse of Biological Functionalism for
Architecture 13. Architecture Theory in the Age of Acceleration 14.
Architecture, Justice, and Theories of Rights 15. Colonialism as Style: On
the Beaux-Arts Tradition 16. Feminist Architectural Figurations: Relating
Theory to Practice through Writing in Time 17. From Deconstruction to
Artificial Intelligence: The New Theoretical Paradigm