In an Oppositions essay laying the groundwork for his architectural theory of post-functionalism, Peter Eisenman […]
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Week 10: Hood’s Manhattanism
In what turned out to be my favorite reading of the semester, Koolhaas’ Delirious New […]
Week 9: Tschumi’s Sequences
The idea that “any architectural sequence implies at least three relations” (Tschumi, 153), of which […]
Week 8: Didascalo’s Argument
The voice of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Didascalo, in argument with “strawman Protopiro, a rigorist in […]
Week 7: Relevance of Phenomenology
The “importance of phenomenology”, as the title goes, is the inevitable question which I keep […]
Week 6: Moneo’s Comparison
One section of Rafael Moneo’s “On Typology” that I found to be of particular interest, […]
Week 5: Rossi
In his Introduction to the First American Edition of The Architecture of the City, Rossi […]
Week 4: Collage City
It would be fair to say that Rowe and Koetter’s Collage City is beyond my […]
Week 3: Jane Jacobs
What I would really like to title this, but seemed too large for the margins […]
Week 2: The Beginnings of Team 10
Since CIAM and Team X were presented as important chapters in Modern Architecture, my mind […]
Recapping Modernism: Corbusier vs. Wright
The reading which struck me most was Le Corbusier’s “A Contemporary City”. In his radical […]