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Oppositions: Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture was published for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 26 issues between September 1973 and Spring 1984.
Contributors included Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Giorgio Ciucci, Stuart Cohen, Alan Colquhoun, Francesco Dal Co, Peter Eisenman, William Ellis, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Giorgio Grassi, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Mary McLeod, Rafael Moneo, Joan Ockman, Martin Pawley, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Denise Scott Brown, Jorge Silvetti, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Manfredo Tafuri, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler.
- Selected editorials
- Kenneth Frampton, "On Reading Heidegger", Oppositions 4 (Oct 1974).
- Mario Gandelsonas, "Neo-Functionalism", Oppositions 5 (Summer 1976).
- Peter Eisenman, "Post-Functionalism", Oppositions 6 (Fall 1976).
- Anthony Vidler, "The Third Typology", Oppositions 7 (Winter 1977).
- Kurt W. Forster, "Monument/Memory and the Mortality of Architecture", Oppositions 25 (Fall 1982), pp 2-19.
- Reader
- Oppositions Reader: Selected Readings from A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture, 1973-1984, ed. & intro. Michael Hays, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Review: Stern (kritische berichte). [1]
- Bibliography
- Literature
- Joan Ockman, "Resurrecting the Avant-Garde: The History and Program of Oppositions", in Architectureproduction, ed. Beatriz Colomina, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp 180-199.
- Beatriz Colomina, Urtzi Grau, "Interview with Peter Eisenman", in Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x to 197x, eds. Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley, ACTAR Publishers, 2010, 261-264. Conducted 2006.
- Urtzi Grau, Daniel Lopez-Perez, Irene Sunwoo, "Interview with Kenneth Frampton", in Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196x to 197x, eds. Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley, ACTAR Publishers, 2010, 293-296. Conducted 2006.
- Suzanne Frank, IAUS, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies: An Insider's Memoir, Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2011. [2]
- Kim Förster, Die Netzwerke des Peter Eisenman, ARCH+ features 19, 2013, 15 pp. (German)
- Kim Förster, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (New York, 1965-1985). Networks of Cultural Production, Zurich: gta Publishers, forthcoming. (English)
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