Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009

by A. Krista Sykes and K. Michael Hays

Critical architectural theory has, over the past decade and a half, undergone significant transformation. The urgency of the 1990s propractice movement, with its mandate to focus on the realities of building, has shifted architectural theory away from utopian ideals and heavy-handed cultural critiques toward the realities of architecture and building. This transition renders theory's immediate history particularly relevant to contemporary thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568988591
• ISBN13: 9781568988597
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"