Precedents in Critical Practice

Utopia ⇒ Projection

TYPE	READINGS
Session 13
Required	Tafuri, Manfredo. “L’Architecture dans le Boudoir; Architecture of Criticism and the Criticism of Language.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 148–67. ISBN: 9780262082617. Silvetti, Jorge. “The Beauty of Shadows.” In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 262–83. ISBN: 9780262082617.
Recommended	Latour, Bruno. “An Attempt at a Compositionist Manifesto.” New Literary History 41, no. 2 (2010): 471–90. Horkheimer, Max, and Theodore Adorno. “Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” In Dialectic of Enlightenment. Continuum, 1998, pp. 3–42. ISBN: 9781859841549.
Peruse	Tafuri, Manfredo. Architecture and Utopia, Design and Capitalist Development. MIT Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780262700207. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 14
Required	Koolhaas, Rem. “Europeans: Biuer! Dali and Le Corbusier Conquer New York.” In Delirious New York. The Monacelli Press, 1997, pp. 235–49. ISBN: 9781885254009. Whiting, Sarah, and R. E. Somol. “Notes around the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism.” Perspecta 33 (2002): 72–7. Martin, Reinhold. “Critical of What?” Harvard Design Magazine 21. Heynen, Hilde. “The Need for Utopian thinking in Architecture.” 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. 241–3. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]
Recommended	Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. Basic Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780465017744. Speaks, Michael. “Big Soft Orange Exhibition Introduction.” Archis 8 (1995): 80. Maas, Winy, and MVRDV. “Toward an Urbanistic Architecture.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 14–5. ISBN: 9781580931342. Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. “Breeding Architecture.” In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 56–7. ISBN: 9781580931342. Foucault, Michel. “What is Revolution?” In The Politics of Truth. Semiotext, 1997, pp. 83–100. ISBN: 9781570270277. Mau, Bruce. “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.” In Life Style. Phaidon Press, 2000, pp. 88–91. ISBN: 9789707906396. Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. Hackett Publishing Company, 1978. ISBN: 9780915144525. [Preview with Google Books]
Peruse	Sigler, Jennifer, and Roemer Van Toorn. 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. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]