City ⇒ Global Economy

TYPE READINGS
Session 3
Required

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972, pp. 3–9, 18–20, 34–5, 49–53 and 72. ISBN: 9780262220156.

Buy at Amazon Jameson, Fredric. "Postmodernism and Consumer Society." In The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern (1983-1998). Verso, 1998, pp. 1–20. [Preview with Google Books]

Recommended

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Moneo, Rafael. "Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown." In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 51–100. ISBN: 9780262134439.

Buy at Amazon Huyssen, Andreas. After The Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780253203991. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Brown, Denise Scott. "Learning from Pop." In Architecture Theory Since 1968. Edited by K. Michael Hays. MIT Press, 1998, pp. 60–6. ISBN: 9780262082617.

Martin, Reinhold. "Architecture's Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?" Grey Room 22 (2006): 6–29.

Peruse

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780262220156.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. Collage City. MIT Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780262680424.

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto. Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN: 9782851081735.

Session 4
Required

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem. "Globalization." In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 363–9. ISBN: 9781885254016.

Buy at Amazon ———. "What Ever Happened to Urbanism." In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 960–71. ISBN: 9781885254016.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Generic City." In S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995, pp. 1238–64. ISBN: 9781885254016.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Junkspace." In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 162–71. ISBN: 9783822830703.

Buy at Amazon Foster, Hal. "Design and Crime." In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055.

Buy at Amazon Speaks, Michael, Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter, et al. "The Design and Crime Forum." In Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003, pp. 11–23. ISBN: 9780970314055.

Recommended

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Moneo, Rafael. "Rem Koolhaas." In Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategy in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects. MIT Press, 2004, pp. 307–59. ISBN: 9780262134439.

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem. "White Briefs Against Filth: The Waning power of New York." In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 236–9. ISBN: 9783822830703.

Buy at Amazon Kwinter, Sanford, ed. "Flying the Bullet, or When Did the Future Begin?" In Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students.  Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 68–91. ISBN: 9781885232021. [Preview with Google Books]

Kwinter, Sanford. "New Babylons: Urbanism at the End of the Millennium." In Assemblage 25 (1995): 80–1.

Buy at Amazon Koolhass, Rem, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. "Re-learning from Las Vegas: Interview with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown." In Content. Taschen, 2004, pp. 150–7. ISBN: 9783822830703.

Scott, Felicity. "On Architecture Under Capitalism." Grey Room 6 (2002): 44–65.

Koolhaas, Rem. "The Ultimate Atlas for the 21st Century." Wired, June 2003, 132–69.

Peruse

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem. S, M , L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1995. ISBN: 9781885254016.

Buy at Amazon Koolhaas, Rem, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, et al. Mutations. Actar, 2001. ISBN: 9788495273512.

Buy at Amazon Schafer, Ashley, and Amanda Reeser, eds. Praxis 5: Architecture After Capitalism. Praxis Inc., 2003. ISBN: 9780970314055.