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InhaltsangabeList of Illustrations Prelude: The 1960s Part I: 1970s: 1. Pars Destruens: 1968-1973 2. The Crisis of Meaning 3. Early Postmodernism 4. Modernism Abides Part II: 1980s: 5. Postmodernism and Critical Regionalism 6. Traditionalism and New Urbanism 7. Gilded Age of Theory 8. Deconstruction Part III: 1990s and Present: 9. Wake of the Storm 10. Pragmatism and Post-Criticality 11. Minimalisms 12. Sustainability and Beyond Notes Acknowledgments Index

An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last forty years. Mallgrave employs the words theory and architecture in a broad sense--the latter encompassing aspects of urban planning, structural, and landscape design, while theory too is often indistinguishable from practice. The text surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics, and the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years, concluding with an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years. A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.