Edward R. Frenette, AIA, ArchitectureBoston, Issue #3, 1998
"Michael Hays' anthology of 47 texts and 12 drawings, Architectural Theory Since 1968, purports to include the most representative and important texts of contemporary architectural theory. His purpose is to show the evolution of architectural theory and its role as mediator between our society and its architecture, thus opening architecture up to other disciplines of thought. The sum of his efforts in intended to constitute the necessary history on which new theories will be built. With a few reservations, Hays' book exceeds expectations... Michael Hays has done a great service for academics and practitioners alike by charting the configuration of contemporary architectural theory."
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Book Description
In the discussion of architecture, the prevailing sentiment of the past three decades has been that cultural production can no longer be understood to arise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but is constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--poststructuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric--has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architecture's general importance in intellectual discourse.
This long-awaited anthology is in some sense a sequel to Joan Ockman's Architecture Culture 1943-1968, A Documentary Anthology (1993). It presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architecture theory, introducing each by detailing the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.
