Precedents in Critical Practice

City ⇒ Global Economy

TYPE	READINGS
Session 3
Required	Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972, pp. 3–9, 18–20, 34–5, 49–53 and 72. ISBN: 9780262220156. Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society.” In The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern (1983-1998). Verso, 1998, pp. 1–20. [Preview with Google Books]
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 51–100. ISBN: 9780262134439. Huyssen, Andreas. After The Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780253203991. [Preview with Google Books] Brown, Denise Scott. “Learning from Pop.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 60–6. ISBN: 9780262082617. Martin, Reinhold. “Architecture’s Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?” Grey Room 22 (2006): 6–29.
Peruse	Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780262220156. Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780262680424. Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto. Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9782851081735.
Session 4
Required	Koolhaas, Rem. “Globalization.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 363–9. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “What Ever Happened to Urbanism.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 960–71. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “The Generic City.” In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 1238–64. ISBN: 9781885254016. ———. “Junkspace.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 162–71. ISBN: 9783822830703. Foster, Hal. “Design and Crime.” In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055. Speaks, Michael, Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter, et al. “The Design and Crime Forum.” In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Rem Koolhaas.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 307–59. ISBN: 9780262134439. Koolhaas, Rem. “White Briefs Against Filth: The Waning power of New York.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 236–9. ISBN: 9783822830703. Kwinter, Sanford, ed. “Flying the Bullet, or When Did the Future Begin?” In Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students.  Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 68–91. ISBN: 9781885232021. [Preview with Google Books] Kwinter, Sanford. “New Babylons: Urbanism at the End of the Millennium.” In Assemblage 25 (1995): 80–1. Koolhass, Rem, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. “Re-learning from Las Vegas: Interview with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.” In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 150–7. ISBN: 9783822830703. Scott, Felicity. “On Architecture Under Capitalism.” Grey Room 6 (2002): 44–65. Koolhaas, Rem. “The Ultimate Atlas for the 21st Century.” Wired, June 2003, 132–69.
Peruse	Koolhaas, Rem. S, M , L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 9781885254016. Koolhaas, Rem, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, et al. Mutations. Actar, 2001. ISBN: 9788495273512. Schafer, Ashley, and Amanda Reeser, eds_. Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism_. Praxis Inc., 2003. ISBN: 9780970314055.