Constructing a New Agenda

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ISBN: 9781568988597
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 400 pages
15,6 x 23,5 cm
May 2010
€34,00 (excl. VAT)

Constructing a New Agenda

Architectural Theory 1993–2009

A. Krista Sykes Ed(s)

A follow-up to best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects 28 essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the myriad approaches and attitudes adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era. Multiple themes – including the impact of digital technologies on processes of architectural design, production, materiality and representation; the implications of globalization and networks of information; the growing emphasis on sustainable and green architecture; and the phenomenon of the “starchitect” and iconic architecture – appear against a background colored by architectural theory, as it existed from the 1960s on, in a period of transition (if not crisis) that centers around the perceived abyss between theory and practice.

Contains iconic essays by Greg Lynn, Deborah Berke, Sanford Kwinter, Samuel Mockbee, Stan Allen, Rem Koolhaas, William Mitchell, Anthony Vidler, Micahel Hays, Reinhold Martin, Reiser + Umemoto, Glenn Murcutt, William McDonough, Micahael Braungart, Michael Speaks and many more.