Modern Architectural Theory

Abstract

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism.

The Architectural Theory Before and After Kant in the Intersection of the Philosophy and Architecture

“…Especially in the 1960s, in France, the formation of urban semiology emerged as a result of analysis of some theoreticians such as F. Choay, R. Ledrut, R. Barthes and A. J. Greimas based on dealing with urban as a linguistic code system was one of the major contributions of Structuralism to the field of architecture. Except those, many architects and theoreticians such as C. Jencks, J. Pablo Bonta, G. Baird, L. Hjelmslev, K. Lynch, J. Rykwert and members of design schools in Italy such as I. Gamberini, G. Klaus Koenig, C. Brandi, R. De Fusco, U. Eco, G. Dorfes, S. Bettini benefited from approaches of structuralism and semiologic analysis from the 1950s to 1980s (Mallgrave, 2007;Gallagher, 2012).…”

The inspiration of Bauhaus principles on the modern housing in Cyprus

“…(Lefaivre & Tzonis, 2004). The Modern movement "explained against a background of social, economic, technological, and artistic changes, and these must be duly acknowledged" (Ballantyne, 2004, p. 34 (Mallgrave, 2005). The era formed a "highly provocative standards and suggested the acceptable minimal housing square demands" ( Lejeune & Sabatino, 2010, p. 69).…”

Restauración e imaginario urbano: algunas observaciones antropológico-arquitectónicas en torno a la idea de patrimonio

“…Mallgrave, 2009). En este caso particular, ello involucraba una primera organización de características arquitectónicas, así como de la (posible) evolución histórica de este sector urbano.…”