An Introduction to Architectural Theory

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.

The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty years
surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics
Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years
Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years

Author Biography

Harry Francis Mallgrave is Professor of Architecture atIllinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguishedcareer as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. Hismost recent publications include The Architect’s Brain(Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Modern Architectural Theory: AHistorical Survey, 1673-1968, Architectural Theory Volume I:An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Wiley-Blackwell 2005) and,with co-editor Christina Contandriopoulos, Architectural TheoryVolume II: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell2008). David Goodman is Studio Assistant Professor ofArchitecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and isco-principal of R+D Studio. He has also taught architecture atHarvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and BostonArchitectural College. His work has appeared in the journalLog, in the anthology Chicago Architecture: Histories,Revisions, Alternatives, and in the Northwestern UniversityPress publication Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation andSourcebook.