Foreword
David Leatherbarrow
PART I. Historical Perspectives on Architectural Theory
1. What ever Became of Architectural Theory?
Elie G. Haddad
2. Architecture’s Historiographical Turn
Andrew Leach
3. Erase the Traces! History and Destruction in Brecht, Benjamin, and Tafuri
Francesco Marullo
4. The End of Theory and the Division between History and Design
Joseph Bedford
5. Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against Entrepreneurialism
Nathaniel Coleman
6. Building Without End: The Travails of Archè and Téchne
Claudio Sgarbi
7. The Theory Nobody Knows
Penelope Dean
8. Theorizing a Modern Tradition
Macarena de la Vega de León
9. Postmodernist Revivalism and Architectural Gimmicks
Lidia Klein
PART II. Alternative Visions and New Directions
10. The Form of Utopia: Architectural Theory in the age of Hyperobjects
Stefano Corbo
11. Senses of Reality, or: Realism and Aesthetics, Today?
Giacomo Pala
12. On the Use and Abuse of Biological Functionalism for Architecture
Kasper Lægring
13. Architecture Theory in the Age of Acceleration
Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine Szacka
14. Architecture, Justice, and Theories of Rights
Esra Akcan
15. Colonialism as Style: On the Beaux-Arts Tradition
Charles L. Davis II
16. Feminist Architectural Figurations: Relating Theory to Practice through Writing in Time
Jane Rendell
17. From Deconstruction to Artificial Intelligence: The New Theoretical Paradigm
Neil Leach
Biography
Elie G. Haddad is Professor of Architecture at the Lebanese American University, where he is currently Dean of the School of Architecture and Design. Haddad completed his PhD studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 with a dissertation on Henry van de Velde. His research focuses on architectural theory, urbanism, and modern architecture. In 2014, Haddad co-edited a survey on contemporary architecture and is in the process of finalizing a new volume titled Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era (forthcoming). In parallel to his academic activities, Haddad was recently elected as President of the Association of Arab Architects.
