Intentions in Architecture by Christian Norberg-Schulz - Published within a few years of Aldo Rossi’s Architecture of the City and Robert Ventun’s Complexity and Contradiction, Christian Norberg-Schulz’ (b 1926) Intentions in Architecture is equally a reaction against Modernism, in particular as realized after the War. Norberg-Schulz begins the book with an extended argument suggesting [...]

Largely on the strength of Supports, N John Habraken (b 1928, Bandung, Indonesia, of Dutch parents) was Director of the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR) from 1965 until 1975. SAR was a working party of Dutch architects creoted to explore the possibilities of support structures and in fill building as an alternative to mass housing. [...]

Postmodern architecture was only one manifestation of the phenomenon that Portoghesi so aptly described as the end of prohibitionism. Challenges within design culture to the hegemony of modernism paralleled similar challenges to prevailing social and political norms elsewhere within contemporary society. In field after field, questions were raised concerning the fundamental assumptions on which different [...]

With the simultaneous appearance of Lever House in New York and the Unite in Marseilles, it had become obvious that the stylistic schism between Europe and the New World had entered a decisive phase. The issue of art or technology had divided the ideological basis of the modern movement, and the diverging styles apparent since [...]