Theoretical Issues

Buildings that explore a theory, metaphor, or specific influences from other disciplines: literature, art, music, philosophy, mathematics, biology, medicine, psychology, law.

Architects: Steven Holl, Kas Oosterhuis, Bernard Tschumi, Diller & Scofidio, Maya Lin,, Archigram, Umberto Eco (author), Italo Calvino (author), Jorge Luis Borghes (poet), Louis Aragon (poet), Francis Ponge (poet), Philip Glass (musician), Miles Davis (musician), Antonio Gaudi, Hector Guimard

Books and Articles:

Allen, Stan. Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, Critical Voices in Art, Theory & Culture. London: Routledge, 2000.

Ambasz, Emilio. Natural Architecture: Artificial Design. Milan: Electa, 2001.

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

Casey, Edward. Getting Back into Place. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Randall. Berkeley, CA: Univ of Calif., 1984.

De Landa, Manuel A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. NY: Zone Books, 2000.

Dodds, George, ed. Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.

Garcia, Mark, ed. Architextiles, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2007.

Hays, Michael, ed. Architectural Theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1998.

Heidegger, Martin. "Building, Dwelling, Thinking." In The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. NY: Harper & Row, 1977.

Hensel, Michael, ed. Emergence: Morphogenesis, Architectural Design. London: Academic Press, 2004.

Hersey, George. The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Illich, Ivan. H2o and the Waters of Forgetfulness. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1985.

Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1993.

Kwinter, Sanford. Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture. Barcelona: Actar, 2008.

Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.

Leach, Neil, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge, 1997.

Lesser, Wendy. Life Below Ground. NY: Faber and Faber, 1987.

Martin, Elizabeth. Architecture as a Translation of Music. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Martin, Louis. "Transpositions: On the Intellectual Origins of Tschumi's Architectural Theory." Assemblage 11 (1990): 22-35.

Mikal, Thomas, ed. Architecture and Surrealism. London: Routledge Press, 2004.

Perez-Gomez, Alberto. "Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation." Chora 1 (1994): 1-34.

Ponte, Alessandra, ed. Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Ray, Mary-Ann. Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice and Midgets, Pamphlet Architecture. NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

Sadler, Simon. The Situationist City. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Scolari, Massimo, and José Rafael Moneo. Hypnos. NY: Rizzoli, 1983.

Senosiain, Javier. Bio-Architecture. NY: Architectural Press, 2003.

Venturi, Robert, and Denise Scott-Brown. Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2004.

Vidler, Anthony. Warped Space : Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.

Williams, Rosalind. Notes on the Underground. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.