TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heynen,Hilde
AU  - Heynickx,Rajesh
AU  - Loosen,Sebastiaan
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Figure of Knowledge : : Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s / 
SN  - 9789461663221
AV  - NA2500 .F545 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references; Open Access
N2  - It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/78083/
ER  -