Architecture Theory

Architecture Theory is a comprehensive and groundbreaking one volume overview of, and introduction to, contemporary critical discourse in architecture. In bringing critical theory and Continental philosophy to bear upon architecture, it provides a solid framework for a fully up-to-date theory of architecture, one that reflects the latest developments and concerns. The book is divided into four sections-groundwork; constructing the "individual"; pluralities; instrumentality-each covering a core theme in contemporary architecture theory. In each section an introductory essay by Andrew Ballantyne provides valuable context, exposition, and analysis. This is followed by a selection of writings on architecture and other related cultural concerns from major contemporary thinkers, including Zvizvek, Irigaray, Lefebvre, Lyotard, Kristeva, Nancy, Virilio, Deleuze, and Negri.>

About the author

Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Ballantyne, Ballantyne Andrew
• Assisted by: Andrew Ballantyne (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780826464088
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6408-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 252 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Theory of architecture