City ⇒ Global Economy

TYPE READINGS
Session 3
Required

Buy at MIT Press 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Session 4
Required

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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