1st Edition

Rethinking Architecture A Reader in Cultural Theory

By Neil Leach Copyright 1997
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory... Read more
Part 1: Modernism  Part 2: Phenomenology  Part 3: Structuralism  Part 4: Postmodernism  Part 5: Poststructuralism

Biography

Neil Leach

"This book brings together for the first time the principal writings on architecture by many of the key philosophers and culutral theorists of the twentieth century. These essays contain some of the most insightful observations on contemporary architecture, and offer refreshingly original perspectives on the subject. Together they constitute a body of material which prompts the rethinking of many accepted tenets of architectural theory from a broader cultural perspective."Lonaard