Architecture History and Theory in Reverse - 9781138958197

Taylor & Francis

Preface Introduction Epilogue: Today in the Beginning\u2026 Part 1: Architecture in an Information Age 1. 21st Century Trajectories 2. Modernity\u2019s Legacy in a New Millennium 3. A Postmodern Profession, circa 1991 4. Formal or Phenomenological: a feud between forms of information 5. Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the S\u00E3o Pedro 6. Mies van der Rohe in Chicago 7. Language Games 8. Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace Interlude: The Information Reformation, or This Killed That \u2026 Part 2: Architecture in Eras of Meaning 9. 16 June 1904: Ulysses and the Uncanny 10. Marx, Meaning, and Matter 11. Exchange and Evolution 12. In What Style: epistemes and monsters 13. The Pr\u00E9cis and the Paternity of Perception 14. De Sade versus Descartes: competing conceptions of language 15. The Tense of Abstract Nouns 16. Vitruvian Cycles 1: representations against space 17. Vitruvian Cycles 2: physical language and shared experience Prologue: Babel\u2026 Further Reax