Precedents in Critical Practice

Image ⇒ Surface

TYPE	READINGS
Session 11
Required	Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1982, pp. 21–41. ISBN: 9780262181013. [Preview with Google Books] Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour. “Theories of Ugly and Ordinary and Related Contrary Theories.” In Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972, pp. 128–63. ISBN: 9780262220156.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Aldo Rossi.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 101–42. ISBN: 9780262134439. Hays, K. Michael. “Odysseus and the Oarsman, or, Mies’s Abstraction Once Again.” In The Presence of Mies. Edited by Detlef Mertins. Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 235–48. ISBN: 9781568980133. Jameson, Fredric. “Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity.” In The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1938–1998. Verso, 1998, pp. 93–135. ISBN: 9781859841822. Martin, Reinhold. “Atrocities, or Curtain Wall as Mass Medium.” Perspecta 32 (2001): 66–75. Hays, K. Michael. “Mies Effect.” In Mies in America. Edited by Phyllis Lambert. Harry N. Abrams, 2001. ISBN: 9780810967281. Martin, Reinhold. “Architecture’s Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?” Grey Room 22 (2006): 6–29.
Peruse	Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. MIT Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780262181013. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 12
Required	Hays, K. Michael. “Critical Architecture Between Culture and Form.” Perspecta 21 (1984): 14–29. ———. “The Envelope as Mediator.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 66–7. ISBN: 9781580931342. Kipnis, Jeffrey. “The Cunning of Cosmetics.” El Croquis 84 (1997): 22–8. Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “The Politics of the Envelope.” Volume 17 (2008): 76–105.
Recommended	Moneo, Rafael. “Herzog and de Meuron.” In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 361–404. ISBN: 9780262134439. Deamer, Peggy. “Structuring Surfaces: The Legacy of Whites.” Perspecta 32 (2001): 90–9. Taylor, Mark. “Reflections on Skin.” In Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory. C. B. A., 1997, 13–20. Davidson, Cynthia. “An interview with Herzog & de Meuron.” ANY 13 (1996): 48–58. Kwinter, Sanford. “Playboys of the Western World.” ANY 13 (1996): 62.
Peruse	Riley, Terence. Light Construction: Museum of Modern Art. Harry N Abrams, 1995. ISBN: 9780810961548. [Preview with Google Books]