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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.

A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism.

By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay.

The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol-Morales Rubi, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included.

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CHOICE Review

This book arrives at an opportune moment following an entire generational revolution in architectural theory, inaugurated in the 1960s, that has brought us to postmodernism and beyond. It charts the permutations and ramifications of architectural theory in the last third of the 20th century, reprinting about 50 of the most important essays of the past 30 years. Unfortunately, the book reprints only about 20 illustrations from these articles--a mere handful of the originals--thereby sacrificing a good deal of visual impact. Nesbitt (Univ. of Virginia) has organized the essays sensibly, but her 50-page introduction does not add much to our understanding of the material. This book will be used as a reader-cum-textbook for many architectural theory classes for the next generation of architects, who will undoubtedly overturn the architectural theory that these essays have bred. This book is unique in its class; no other survey of architectural theory is as catholic in its coverage. Graduate; faculty; professional. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center