Readings

The readings for the class are presented below.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Hayden, Dolores. "The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space." In The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 14-29. ISBN: 9780262581523.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Hollier, Denis. "Introduction: Bloody Sundays." In Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille. Translated by Betsy Wing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, pp. ix-xxiii. ISBN: 9780262581134.

White, Hayden. "Review of The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre." Design Book Review 29/30 (Summer/Fall 1993): 90-93.

Buy at Amazon Torre, Susana. "Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of de Mayo," pp. 241-250; McLeod, Mary. ""Other" Spaces and "Others"," pp. 15-28; and Da Costa Meyer, Esther. "La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space." pp. 141-156. In The Sex of Architecture. Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Kanes Weisman. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. ISBN: 9780810926837.

Buy at Amazon Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas. Foreword by Etienne Gilson. Boston, MA: Beacon Press , 1994, Introduction, pp. xi-xxxv and, chapter 1, pp. 3-37. ISBN: 9780807064733.

Buy at Amazon Defert, Daniel. "Foucault, the Space and the Architects." In Documenta X. Edited by Jean François Chevrier. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1997, pp. 274-283. ISBN: 9783893229116.

Buy at Amazon Bachelard, Gaston. "Poetics of Space," pp. 86-97; Lefebvre, Henri. "The Production of Space," pp. 139-146; Jameson, Frederic. "Is Space Political?" pp. 255-270; and Foucault, Michel. "Other Spaces: The Principles of Heterotopia." pp. 348-356. In Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Edited by Neil Leach. London, UK: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415128261.

Buy at Amazon Harvey, David. "Afterword." In The Production of Space. Edited by Henri Lefebvre. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 425-432. ISBN: 9780631181774.

Buy at Amazon De Certeau, Michel. "The Black Sun of Language: Foucault" pp. 171-183, and "Micro-techniques and Panoptic Discourse: A Quid Pro Quo" pp. 185-191. In Heterologies - Discourse on the Other. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780816614042.

Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Maenner im Raum." In Stadt-Raeume . Edited by Martin Wentz. New York, NY: Verlag, 1991, pp. 91-97. ISBN: 9783421053626.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Fraser, Nancy. "Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy." In Habermas and the Public Sphere. Edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, pp. 109-142. ISBN: 9780262531146.

Buy at Amazon Jacobs, Jane M. "(Post)colonial Spaces." In Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 13-37. ISBN: 9780415120074.

Buy at Amazon Lechte, John. "Georges Bataille," pp. 97-105; "Semiotics," pp. 121; "Juergen Habermas," pp. 186-191; "Modernity & Walter Benjamin," pp. 201-207; and "Post-Modernity." pp. 231. In Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity. Edited by John Lechte. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415074087.

Buy at Amazon Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life. Vol. 2. Translated by John Moore with a preface by Michel Trebitsch. New York, NY: Verso, 1991, pp. 206-216 and 231-232. ISBN: 9780860913405.

Buy at Amazon Deamer, Peggy. "Subject, Object, Text." In Drawing / Building / Text: Essays in Architectural Theory. Edited by Andrea Kahn. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 25-42. ISBN: 9780910413718.

Buy at Amazon Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780674212770.

Buy at Amazon Habermas, Jurgen. The Theory of Communicative Action. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1984, pp. 114-151. ISBN: 9780745607702.

Buy at Amazon Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life in the Modern World. Translated by Sacha Rabinovitch. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1971. ISBN: 9780878559725.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon De Zegher, Catherine, and Mark Wigley, eds. The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262041911.

Buy at Amazon Croset, Pierre-Alain. "The Narration of Architecture." In Architecture Production. Edited by Beatriz Colomina. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 201-211. ISBN: 9780910413206.

Buy at Amazon Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780822310907.

Buy at Amazon Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution. Translated by Robert Bononno. Foreword by Neil Smith. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604.