Title: The cultural context of critical architecture
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. M. Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia (Cambridge, Mass. and London, The MIT Press, 1976). A possible pre-history of critical architecture might be traced back to Constant Nieuwenhuys in the Situationist International in the 1950s, or Augustus Welby Pugin in the nineteenth century Gothic Revival, or Claude Nicholas Ledoux in post-revolutionary France, or even the monastic ideologues of the Cistercian Order, or further still. 2. F. Jameson, ‘Architecture and the Critique of Ideology’, The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971–1986, v. 2 (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1988), pp. 35–60; K. M. Hays, ‘Critical Architecture’, Perspecta, 21 (1984), pp. 15–28. 3. The best introduction is K. H. Chen and S. Morley, (eds.), Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (London, Routledge, 1996). See also, S. Hall and P. du Gay, (eds), Questions of Cultural Identity (London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1996); S. Hall, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1997). 4. R. Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (New York, Monacelli Press, 1978/94); B. Tschumi, ‘Sanctuaries’, Architectural Design, 9 (1973), pp. 575–7; B. Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge, Mass. and London, The MIT Press, 1994). 5. B. Tschumi, comment made during a discussion forum, in C. C. Davison, (ed.), Anyplace (New York, Anyone Corporation/Cambridge, Mass.and London, The MIT Press, 1995), p. 229. 6. F. Jameson, ‘Is Space Political?’, in C. C. Davison, (ed.), Anyplace, ibid., pp. 192–205, p. 196. 7. R. Koolhaas, comment made during a discussion forum in Davison (ed.), Anyplace, ibid., p. 234. 8. See http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/013/rem_ text.htm, reprint of M. Fairs, ‘Rem Koolhaas’, Icon, n. 13 (June, 2004). (Icon website, access date 24 March, 2005.) 9. R. Koolhaas, et al., The Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City, v. 1 (Koln, Taschen, 2001); R. Koolhaas, ‘Junkspace’, The Harvard Guide to Shopping: Harvard Design School Project on the City, v. 2 (Koln, Taschen, 2001); and R. Koolhaas/OMA/AMO, Content (Koln, Taschen, 2004). 10. H. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London, Routledge, 1994), pp. 1–2. 11. R. Somol and S. Whiting, ‘Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism’, Perspecta, 33 (2002), pp. 75–7; G. Baird, ‘“Criticality” and its Discontents’, Harvard Design Magazine, 21 (Fall-Winter, 2004), pp. 16–21. 12. E. Said, Culture and Imperialism (London, Chatto & Windus, 1993), p.xxix.