While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no g
In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968,cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as amatter of social
Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entire
Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) is acknowledged as one of Italy’s most influential architectural historians. In his final work, Interpreting the Renaissance, published here in English for the
What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers worki
From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms ?spaceship earth” and ?synergetics,” the life mission of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895?1983) was to create living environments that minimized consu
