List of figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Charles Waldheim
Introduction: Too Many Things and Not Enough Forms
1. The Cultural History of Autonomy
1.1. The Fallacy of an Absolute Autonomy
1.2. The Philosophical Genesis: Kant
1.3. The Successful Failure of the Avant-Garde: Art and Society
1.4. The Autonomy of the Political: Arendt and Schmitt
1.5. Heart of Darkness: Reason
1.6. The Urban Character of autonomen Architektur: Kaufmann
2. The Polemics of Architectural Autonomy
2.1. Tower of Babel: Architecture and Language
2.2. The Cultural Sensitivity
2.3. The Historical Pedigree
2.4. The Modern Notion of Process
3. The Architectural Universe: Peter Eisenman
3.1. The Internal History of Architecture
3.2. From Language to Textuality
3.3. The Deaths of the Authors
3.4. Cities of Artificial Excavations
4. The Urban Mind: Aldo Rossi
4.1. The City and the New Urban Reality
4.2. Urban Science: Architecture and Urbanism
4.3. Typology and Monumentality: Gallaratese and San Cataldo
4.4. The Concreteness of Abstraction: San Rocco
Conclusion: Only Buildings and Architects
Index
Biography
Miguel Lopez Melendez is the founder of D A COOP—Design As COOPeration, an international design and research office focused on urban challenges. He holds a Doctor of Design and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) as well as a Bachelor of Architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Miguel has served as a Global Visiting Faculty at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Visiting Instructor at Louisiana State University, and Research Associate, Research Assistant, and Teaching Fellow at Harvard GSD.
