Craig Buckley (ed.): After the Manifesto (2015)

“There has been something of a mania for the manifesto in recent years. While only a little while ago one could still hear about the absence of manifestos in architecture, today we seem to be surrounded by them—on paper, on-line, within exhibitions, at events, in built form. The urgency of the genre has returned to prominence at a moment of economic crisis and political protests over inequality, yet also appears wedded ever more intimately to official institutions of culture. For some, the manifesto remains an archaism, the product of another century whose current revival artfully masks the fact that it has outlived its use. For others, the manifesto remains protean, a form that not only continues to remake itself but stands to be reclaimed in our age of rapidly changing media. For still others it is precisely the outmoded, untimely qualities of the manifesto that makes it so interesting today. After the Manifesto brings together architects and scholars to revisit the past, present, and future of the manifesto, a prism through which to question the present state of architectural culture.”

With essays by Rubén Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz Colomina, Héctor García-Diego, Carlos Labarta, José Ángel Medina, José Manuel Pozo, Juan Miguel Otxotorena, Felicity Scott, Jorge Tárrago, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker, and Mark Wigley.

Publisher Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2015
ISBN 1883584876, 9781883584870
184 pages

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Video from the symposium, (2), (3)

Superflex: Tools (2003)

“Tools is a publication conceived as a workbook with examples and instructions as to how the SUPERFLEX tools might be used. The first section – primarily image based with brief texts – examines some of SUPERFLEX’s projects. The second part is a collection of essays presenting various reflections on tools and their users written by Doris Berger, Charles Esche, Mika Hannula, Andreas Spiegl and Barbara Steiner. The third section focus’s on SUPERFLEX’s activities and the people involved.”

Edited by Babara Steiner in collaboration with Superdesign
Designed by Rasmus Koch
Publisher Verlag Der Büchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2003
ISBN 3822877433, 9783822877432
290 pages
via Superflex

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Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, Leslie Kanes Weisman (eds.): The Sex of Architecture (1996)

“This book brings together 24 provocative texts that collectively express the power and diversity of women’s views on architecture today. This volume presents a dialogue among women historians, practitioners, theorists, and others concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism.”

Publisher Harry N. Abrams, 1996
ISBN 0810926830, 9780810926837
320 pages
via Dubravka

Reviews: Nadir Lahiji & D.S. Friedman (AA Files 1999), Durham Crout (J Architectural and Planning Research 2000).

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