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In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality,
This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role.
List of contents
1. This Thing Called Theory
Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George Themistokleous Part 1: Theories and Histories 2. Manfredo Tafuri and the Death of Architecture
Marco De Michelis 3. Theories and History of Architecture (museums)
Sergio M. Figueiredo 4. Architecture In/Out of the Boudoir? The autonomy of architecture and the architecture of autonomy
Ole W. Fischer 5. Repositioning - Before Theory
Kyle Miller Part 2: Between History and Philosophy 6. Which "Humanism"? On the Italian Theory of Architecture, 1951-1969
Amir Djalali 7. Philosophical Thinking as Political Praxis: Giorgio Agamben and inoperative architecture
Camillo Boano 8. Affective Encounters Amidst Feminist Futures in Architecture?
Hélène Frichot 9.
Repositioning - The After(s) and the End(s) of Theory
Deborah Hauptmann Part 3: Beyond the Image 10. Drawing Jerusalem. Notes on Hans Bol's
Jerusalem, with Christ and the Good Shepherd (1575)
Andrew Benjamin 11. Architectural Drawing: architecture's speculative visual history
Desley Luscombe 12. God's Eye View
Adam Jasper Part 4: Critical Displays 13.
Aktion 507: Politics Become Theory Become Praxis
Florian Kossak 14. Architecture and the Neo-avant-garde
Michael Chapman 15. Exhibits That Matter: Material Gestures with Theoretical Stakes
Maarten Liefooghe 16. Repositioning - This Think Called Crit ...
Brian Hatton Part 5: Theories of Things 17. Ready, Steady, Cook with Bergson, Plato and Gordon Matta-Clark
Stephen Walker 18. Pragmatics: Towards a Theory of Things
Gerry Adler 19. Expendability of Life and Technology: Architecture's Thing and the Thingness of Theory
Ivana Wingham Part 6: The Transactions of Architecture 20. Architecture and the Promise of Post-capitalism
Anthony Burke 21. Domestic, Production, Debt: For a Theory of the Informal
Platon Issaias 22. White, Wide, and Scattered: Picturing (her) Housing Career
Helen Runting and Hélène Frichot 23. Toward a Theory of Interior
Ross Exo Adams 24. Repositioning - Theory Now. Don't excavate, change reality!
Roemer Van Toorn Part 7: Forms of Engagement 25. (Un)political
Pippo Ciorra 26. Prince Complex: Narcissism and Reproduction of the Architectural Mirror
Camilo Amaral 27. Less than Enough: a critique of Aureli's project
Douglas Spencer 28. Repositioning - Having Ideas
Mario Carpo 29. 'But that is not enough'
Teresa Stoppani Index
About the author
Teresa Stoppani is Professor of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University, where she directs the PhD in Architecture programme. She is the author of
Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice (Routledge, 2010) and of the forthcoming
X Unorthodox Ways to Rethink Architecture and the City (Routledge, 2017).
Giorgio Ponzo is Teaching Fellow in Architectural Design and Pedagogy at the Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh, and PhD candidate at Leeds Beckett University. His research pursues a definition of (architectural) knowledge as a combination and recombination of fragments of discourse, where the work of the architect becomes a combinatory practice.
George Themistokleous is a Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory and Architectural Design at Leeds Beckett University. His doctoral research considers the limitations of current architectural representational methods in relation to a re-thinking of bodily and machinic vision, through custom made optical devices and multimedia installations.
Summary
In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role.
