Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter: Collage City (1978–) [EN, DE, ES]
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, bricolage, city, collage, modernism, postmodernism, theory, urban design, urban planning, urbanism, utopia
“A theoretical treatise that sets out various analyses of urban form in a number of existing cities known to be aesthetically successful, examining their actually existing urban structure as found, revealing it to be the end product of a ceaseless process of fragmentation, the collision / superimposition / contamination of many diverse ideas imposed on it by successive generations, each with its own idea.”
A major thesis on urban interaction which first introduced the concept of “bricolage” to urban theory.
Publisher MIT Press, 1978
ISBN 0262180863, 9780262180863
186 pages
Commentary: ANY 7-8, dedicated to Rowe’s work (ed. Robert Somol, 1994), K. Michael Hays (Architecture Theory Since 1968, 1998), Joan Ockman (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1998), Anthony Vidler (Architectural Review, 2011).
Review: Ed Cutler (2010).
Collage City (English, 1978, 99 MB, via)
Collage City (German, trans. Bernhard Hoesli, 1984, 37 MB)
Ciudad collage (Spanish, trans. Esteve Riambau Sauri, 1998, 23 MB, via)
Introduction to French edition (1993)
Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf (eds.): Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, architecture, city, history of architecture, manifesto, modernism, postmodernism, theory, urbanism
A survey of 120 texts on architecture from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s, presented in excerpts organised into five sections.
Publisher Academy Editions, Chichester, UK, 1997
ISBN 0471976873
312 pages
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See also Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, 1964/1970.
Comments (2)Néstor García Canclini: Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (1990–) [ES, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, art, craft, cultural studies, hybridity, latin america, modernity, popular culture, postmodernism
“When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Néstor García Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to theoretical developments over the past decade.
García Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and graffiti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong.”
Publisher Grijalbo, México, 1990
ISBN 9700505626
391 pages
English edition
Foreword by Renato Rosaldo
Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. Lopez
University of Minnesota Press, 1995
New edition, with a New Introduction, 2005
ISBN 9780816646685
293 pages
Reviews: Jesús Martín‐Barbero (Travesia, 1992, EN)
Arnaldo Valero (Actual, 1994, ES), Ileana Rodríguez (Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 1997, EN), Jesús Martín Barbero (Dominical, 2001, ES), Ivanilton Jose de Oliveira (Redalyc, 2007, ES).
Commentary: Anderson Moebus Retondar (Sociológica, 2008, ES), Luis Pulido Ritter (Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio, 2011, ES).
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Culturas híbridas. Estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad (Spanish, 1990, 19 MB)
Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (English, new ed., 1995/2005, 19 MB, updated on 2022-9-22)