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Collected Essays on Architectural Criticism

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism" by Alan Colquhoun. The table of contents lists 3 parts that contain essays written between 1962-2004 on topics related to modern architecture, historicism, and the work of Reyner Banham. Some specific essays mentioned include "The Modern Movement in Architecture," "Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier," and "The Le Corbusier Centenary."

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Collected Essays on Architectural Criticism

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism" by Alan Colquhoun. The table of contents lists 3 parts that contain essays written between 1962-2004 on topics related to modern architecture, historicism, and the work of Reyner Banham. Some specific essays mentioned include "The Modern Movement in Architecture," "Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier," and "The Le Corbusier Centenary."

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alan colquhoun

collected essays in
architectural criticism

introduction by
kenneth frampton
Contents

5 Introduction by Kenneth Frampton

PART I 18 The Modern Movement in Architecture


1962-1980 23 Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology
27 Formal and Functional Interactions: a Study of Two Late Buildings by Le Corbusier
34 Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier
45 Typology and Design Method
52 Rules, Realism and History
58 Alvar Aalto: Type versus Function
64 The Superblock
78 Centraal Beheer
82 Plateau Beaubourg
90 Frames to Framework
97 Historicism and the Limits of Semiology
106 Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las Vegas and Oberlin
116 EH Gombrich and the Hegelian Tradition
122 EH Gombrich: "Symptoms and Syndromes"In Search of Cultural History
124 The Beaux-Arts Plan: Viollet-le-Duc's Transformation of the Parisian Hotel Particulier
130 Form and Figure
140 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again

PART II 154 Three Kinds of Historicism


1980-1989 163 Rationalism: a Philosophical Concept in Architecture
178 Composition the Project
versus
184 Vernacular Classicism
190 A Way of Looking at the Present Situation
193 The Significance of Le Corbusier
201 Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason
215 The Strategies of the Grand Travaux
226 Classicism and Ideology
228 Regionalism and Technology
230 "Newness" and "Age-Value" in Alois Riegl
233 Postmodern Critical Attitudes
238 Postmodernism and Structuralism: a Retrospective Glance

PART III 248 Reyner Banham: A Reading for the 1980s


1989-2004 253 The Le Corbusier Centenary
268 The Nineteenth Century Terminus Station as Cultural Artefact
280 Regionalism 1
287 Regionalism 2
292 Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern
302 Criticism and Self-criticism in German Modernism
315 Architectural Manifestos of the 1960s in America
321 Lost Illusions
325 Esprit de Corps
329 Notes on Public Policy and City Planning in Europe since 1840
335 Changing Museum

346 Index

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