Precedents in Critical Practice

Introduction

TYPE	READINGS
Session 1
Required	Wigley, Mark. “Story-time.” Assemblage 27 (1995): 80–94. Jarzombek, Mark. “Un-messy Realism and the Decline of the Architectural Mind.” Perspecta 40 (2008): 82–4.
Recommended	Hays, K. Michael. “Critical Architecture Between Culture and Form.” Perspecta 21 (1984): 14–29. ———. “Theory Constitutive Conventions and Theory Change.” Assemblage, no. 1 (1986): 116–28. Lavin, Sylvia. “The Temporary Contemporary.” In Perspecta 34. MIT Press, 2003, pp. 128. ISBN:9780262523394. Barthes, Roland. “What is Criticism?” In Critical Essays. Translated by Richard Howard. Northwestern University Press, 1972. ISBN:9780810105898. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 2
Required	Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “A Scientific Autobiography.” Harvard Design Magazine 21, Fall 2003 / Winter 2004, 5–15. Whiting, Sarah. “Critical Reflections.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 88–9. Eisenman, Peter. “Autonomy and the Will to the Critical.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 90–1. Somol, R. E. “In the Wake of Assemblage.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 92–3. Martin, Reinhold. “Double Agency.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 49. Kurgan, Laura. “Trying not to Avoid Propositions Altogether.” Assemblage 41 (2000): 37. Van Toorn, Roemer. “Beyond Wonderland.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 10. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Arets, Wiel. “Different Strategies.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 69–71. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Mertins, Detlef. “Job Description.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 335. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Speaks, Michael. “Design Intelligence.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 416–21. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Allen, Stan, and James Corner. “Urban Natures.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 16–7. ISBN: 9781580931342.
Recommended	Allen, Stan. “Revising Our Expertise.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 64–6. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Maas, Winy. “Architecture is a Device.” In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 321–4. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books] Sorkin, Michael. “The Avant-Garde in Time of War.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 22–3. ISBN: 9781580931342.
Peruse	Tschumi, Bernard, and Irene Cheng. The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781580931342. Sigler, Jennifer, and Roemer Van Toorn. “The Berlage Institute Report.” In Hunch 6/7. Educational Studies Pr, 2003. ISBN: 9789080536265. Assemblage 41 (2000). Somol, R. E., and Sarah Whiting, eds. Log 5. Anyone Corporation, 2005. ISBN: 9780974652146. Harvard Design Magazine 20, Spring/Summer 2004.