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Theoretical Meltdown

ISBN: 978-0-470-99779-6
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136 pages
February 2009
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Introduction: Anything Goes (Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi).

Theory in Architecture XIII to XX Century (Francesco Proto).

A Short History of Western Architecture from Vitruvius to Rem Koolhaas (Francesco Proto).

Critic's Focus: junya.ishigami+associates (Joseph Grima).

Evaporating Theory: An Interview with Yves Michaud (Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi).

Critic's Focus: muf architecture/art (Claes Sörstedt).

Twenty Years After (Deconstructivism) An Interview with Bernard Tschumi (Michele Costanzo).

Critic's Focus: Nábito Arquitectura (Manuel Gausa).

Digital Morphogenesis (Neil Leach).

Critic's Focus: Atelier Kempe Thill (Hans Ibelings).

Meeting the New Boss: After the Death of Theory (Christopher Hight).

Critic's Focus: Josep Lluís Mateo/MAP Architects (Krunoslav Ivanisin).

The Life of Space (Derrick de Kerckhove and Antonio Tursi).

Critic's Focus: (ecosistema urbano) (Roman Rutkowski and Lukasz Wojciechowski).

Architecture as a Dissident Practice An Interview with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Olympia Kazi).

Critic's Focus: Supersudaca (Carlos Sant' Ana).

Club Cinemetrics: New Post-Perspectival Design Methodologies (Brian McGrath, Hsueh, Cheng Leun, Paul CHU Hoi Shan, José De Jesús Zamora and Victoria Marshall).

Critic's Focus: Stalker/ON (Peter Lang).

That Old Thing Called Flexibility: An interview with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (Francesco Proto).

Critic's Focus: The Center for urban Pedagogy (CUP) (Bill Menking).

Spaces of Freedom (Emiliano Gandolfi).

'To Go Beyond or Not to Be' Unsolicited Architecture: An Interview with Ole Bouman (Luca Guido).

Critic's Focus: MAD (Jiang Jun).

Cross the River by Touching the Stones: Chinese Architecture and Political Economy in the Reform Era: 1978-2008 (Tao Zhu).

Critic's Focus: Exit Ltd (Shumon Basar).

Some Conclusions Liberating Ourselves from the Tyranny of Architecture (Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi).

A Not So Well-Reasoned: Bibliography (Francesco Proto).

Interior Eye: WORK Architecture Company's Diane von Furstenberg Studio, New York (Jayne Merkel).

Building Profile: Vassall Road Housing and Healthcare Centre, Brixton, London (David Littlefield).

Practice Profile: 51% Studios (Howard Watson).

Spiller's Bite: What Are You Looking At (Neil Spiller)?

Unit Factor: Algorithmic Design (Maria Bessa).

Yeang's Eco-Files: Nanoenergy (Ken Yeang).

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

Userscape: Investigating Culture Through the Senses (Valentina Croci).

Site Lines: Baroque Parameters (Andrew Saunders).

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