An Introduction to Architectural Theory

An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first critical history of architectural thought over the last forty years. Beginning with the cataclysmic social and political events of 1968, the authors survey the criticisms of high modernism and its abiding evolution, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, traditionalism, New Urbanism, critical regionalism, deconstruction, parametric design, minimalism, phenomenology, sustainability, and the implications of new technologies for design. With a sharp and lively text, Mallgrave and Goodman explore issues in depth but not to the extent that they become inaccessible to beginning students.