Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Shifting Contours of Postwar Architectural Theory

Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen

SECTION 1
Modernism and its Discontents

CHAPTER 1
Meaning and Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in Architecture

André Loeckx and Hilde Heynen

CHAPTER 2
A Voice from the Margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s Architecture Culture

Philip Goad

CHAPTER 3
Contaminations: Art, Architecture, and the Critical Vision of Lara-Vinca Masini

Peter Lang

CHAPTER 4
Architecture Becomes Programming: Invisible Technicians, Printouts, and Situated Theories in the 1960s

Matthew Allen

CHAPTER 5
Troubled Dialogues: Intellectuality at a Crossroads at the Carrefour de l’Europe in Brussels

Sebastiaan Loosen

SECTION 2
Projects of Theory

CHAPTER 6
Institutionalized Critique? On the Re(birth) of Architectural Theory after Modernism: ETH and MIT Compared

Ole W. Fischer

CHAPTER 7
Thinking Architecture, its Theory and History: A Case Study about Melvin Charney

Louis Martin

CHAPTER 8
Dirtying the Real: Liane Lefaivre and the Architectural Stalemate with Emerging Realities

Andrew Toland

CHAPTER 9
Between Making and Acting: The Inherent Ambivalence of Arendtian Architectural Theory

Paul Holmquist

CHAPTER 10
Critical Regionalism: A not so Critical Theory

Carmen Popescu

SECTION 3
The Misuses of History

CHAPTER 11
The Historiographical Invention of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Cultural Politics and the Return of the Lost Project

Ricardo Ruivo

CHAPTER 12
Effete, Effeminate, Feminist: Feminizing Architecture Theory

Sandra Kaji-O’Grady

CHAPTER 13
Anthologizing Post-Structuralism: Architecture Écriture, Gender, and Subjectivity

Karen Burns

CHAPTER 14
Consequences of Pragmatism: A Retrospect on “The Pragmatist Imagination”

Joan Ockman

CODA
A Discipline in the Making

Hilde Heynen

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