Architecture Thinking across Boundaries

Knowledge transfers since the 1960s

Rajesh Heynickx, Ricardo Costa Agarez, Elke Couchez

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
28 July 2022

Theory of architecture

While most studies on the history of architectural theory have been concerned with what has been said and written, this book is concerned with how architecture theory has been created and transmitted.

Architecture Thinking across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. Eleven original essays explore a variety of themes and contexts, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial and disciplinary boundaries - whether through the international circulation of ideas, transdisciplinary exchanges, or transfers from design practice to theory and back again.

Dissecting the frictions, transformations and resistances that mark these journeys, the essays in this book reflect upon the myriad routes that architectural knowledge has taken while developing into architectural theory. They critically enquire the interstices – geographical, temporal and epistemological – that lie beyond fixed narratives. They show how unstable, vital and eminently mobile the processes of thinking about architecture have been.

Edited by: Rajesh Heynickx, Ricardo Costa Agarez, Elke Couchez
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350202139
ISBN 10: 1350202134
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 28 July 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Part One: Translations and Appropriations 1. Deconstruction and Architecture: translation as a matter of speculative theory 2. Gehry’s Lou Ruvo Center in Las Vegas as a Housing Critique 3. “Boomerang Effect”: The Repercussions of Critical Regionalism in 1980s Greece 4.The Autonomy of Theory: Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin, ETH Zurich, 1975 SECTION 2: Imprints and Undercurrents 5. Royston Landau and the Research Programmes of Architecture 6. Theoretical a/gnosticisms: Paul Tillich, Colin Rowe, and the theology of architecture SECTION 3: Vehicles 7. Cedric Price's Chats: Orality and the Production of Architectural Theory 8. Alternative Facts: Towards a Theorisation of Oral History in Architecture 9. Abandoning the Plan 10. Deltiology as History. Informal Communication as Praxis. 11. Theorizing from the South. The Seminar of Latin American Architecture (SAL) Index

Rajesh Heynickx is a Professor in Architectural Theory and Intellectual History at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium. Ricardo Costa Agarez is Assistant Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the University of Évora, Portugal. Elke Couchez is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hasselt, Belgium.

Reviews for Architecture Thinking across Boundaries: Knowledge transfers since the 1960s

Buildings stay still, but theory is always on the move. This simple fact, often noticed but little acted upon, is one of the two catalysts for this engaging collection of essays on architecture’s recent past. The other - the chronic uncertainty as to whether architecture is at heart a practical, or a theoretical, discipline - is exploited to good effect through a series of lively and provocative discussions. * Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, UCL, UK * In Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries, the figure of the architect, the historian, the theorist is refreshingly reconfigured as one of the many players in a nexus of relationships between ideas, texts, exhibitions, lectures, dialogical practices and people. * Sophia Psarra, Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design, UCL, UK *