Table of Contents:
  • On reading Heidegger / Kenneth Frampton
  • Neo-functionalism / Mario Gandelsonas
  • Post-funtionalism / Peter Eisenman
  • The third typology / Anthony Vidler
  • Monument/memory and the mortality of architecture / Kurt W. Forster
  • Industrialization and the crises in architecture / Kenneth Frampton
  • Physical context/cultural context : including it all / Stuart Cohen
  • Aldo Rossi : the idea of architecture and the Modena cemetery / Rafael Moneo
  • Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building / Colin Rowe
  • Criticism and design / Francesco Dal Co
  • Sign and substance : reflections on complexity, Las Vegas, and Oberlin / Alan Colquhoun
  • Aspects of modernism : Maison Dom-ino and the self-referential sign / Peter Eisenman
  • From structure to subject : the formation of an architectural language / Mario Gandelsonas
  • Type and context in urbanism : Colin Rowe's contextualism / William Ellis
  • Architecture in the urban desert : a critical introduction to Japanese architecture after modernism / Hajime Yatsuka
  • L'architecure dans le Boudoir : the language of criticism and the criticism of language / Manfredo Tafuri
  • On architectural formalism and social concern : a discourse for social planners and radical chic architects / Denise Scott Brown
  • Design versus non-design / Diana Agrest
  • Architecture and transgression / Bernard Tschumi
  • The beauty of shadows / Jorge Silvetti
  • Avant-garde and continuity / Giorgio Grassi
  • Vorwärts, Kameraden, Wir Müssen Zurück (forward, comrades, we must go back) / Leon Krier
  • The most interesting form of lie / Joan Ockman
  • "We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey" : archigram and the retreat from technology / Martin Pawley
  • The idea of type : the transformation of the academic ideal, 1750-1830 / Anthony Vidler
  • Antiquity and modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret houses of 1923 / Kurt W. Forster
  • Le Corbusier and Algiers / Mary McLeod
  • Modern architecture and industry : Peter Behrens and the AEG factories / Stanford Anderson
  • The invention of the modern movement / Giorgio Ciucci
  • The architects' ball-a vignette, 1931 / Rem Koolhass
  • Karel Teige's "Mundaneum" (1929) and Le Corbusier's "in defense of architecture" (1933) / introduction by George Baird
  • Type / Quatremère de Quincy
  • The modern cult of monuments : its character and its origin / Alois Riegl
  • On Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas / Fred Koetter
  • Critical discipline : Giorgio Grassi, La arquitectura como oficio / Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió
  • The Beaux-Arts Exhibition / edited by William Ellis.