Architecture Theory Since 1968 by K. Michael Hays (Editor) Paperback - 824 pages Reprint edition (April 2000) MIT Press ISBN: 0262581884 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk

Edward R. Frenette, AIA, ArchitectureBoston, Issue #3, 1998

"Michael Hays' anthology of 47 texts and 12 drawings, Architectural Theory Since 1968, purports to include the most representative and important texts of contemporary architectural theory. His purpose is to show the evolution of architectural theory and its role as mediator between our society and its architecture, thus opening architecture up to other disciplines of thought. The sum of his efforts in intended to constitute the necessary history on which new theories will be built. With a few reservations, Hays' book exceeds expectations... Michael Hays has done a great service for academics and practitioners alike by charting the configuration of contemporary architectural theory.

Book Description

In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric--has given scholars a range of tools for...

About the Author

K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art. He is the author, among other books, of Modern Architecture and the Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.

Customer Reviews

Lengthly but depth, July 17, 2005
Reviewer: RandMan "randman5000" (Auburn, AL)
The book will take forever. Especially for the faint of heart, but it provides depth into the theory more than any book i've seen. this book is drastically important to the world of architecture theory, but because of the depth in itself, this can be confusing. once again this book is not for the faint of heart.

No House of Cards, June 4, 2002
Reviewer: Chris Sullivan (New York, NY United States)
I praise Michael Hayes for his succinct and accurate notation and massive inter-article references. This text is the bible of a discipline that ostensibly began in the twentieth century, as self-conscious writing began to absorb architecture as a theme or subject.

Each successive wave of theorization about architecture contains similar elements of concern and patterns of approach, each multivalent through time or the pen of the author. Hayes gathers the contentious groups and individuals who have jumped into the fray of Architectural Theory and presents them neatly, their most salient essays all within one binding.