Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF contents 4
3. Acknowledgments 8
4. Introduction 9
5. Biographical Notes 25
6. 1. Wall: exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, London 1972
7. The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference 33
8. The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life 63
9. Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning 73
10. 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987
11. Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism 89
12. Void and Future Development 105
13. Void as Environment of Control and Choice 116
14. The Armature of Genericity 125
15. 3. Montage: maison à Bordeaux, France 1994–1998
16. Dismantling Modernist Fragments 141
17. The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture 168
18. Montage and Filmic Reality 181
19. 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999–2003
20. The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body 201
21. Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative 227
22. Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic 241
23. 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999–2004
24. Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space 263
25. Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation 277
26. Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere 294
27. 6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002–2008
28. The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper 307
29. Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice 317
30. Conclusion 329
31. Bibliography 338
32. Name Index 355
33. Imprint 368