The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
Continue Reading →Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. ...
Continue Reading →Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism is an indispensable anthology of writing by one of the most important voices in architectural theory of the ...
Continue Reading →Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of ‘forgetting’, and how modern society ...
Continue Reading →Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to ...
Continue Reading →Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American ...
Continue Reading →For Marc Augé, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It ...
Continue Reading →Written in 1977, it was the first to define Post-Modernism in architecture – an event which led to its subsequent adoption in other ...
Continue Reading →What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle ...
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