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Contents
Illustration credits 000
Contributors 000 Acknowledgments 000
1 This thing called theory 000
Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo and George Themistokleous
Part I: Theories and histories 000
2 Manfredo Tafuri and the death of architecture 000
Marco De Michelis
3 Theories and history of architecture (museums) 000
Sergio M. Figueiredo
4 Architecture in/out of the boudoir? The autonomy of architecture and the
architecture of autonomy 000
Ole W. Fischer
5 Repositioning: before theory 000
Kyle Miller
Part II: Between history and philosophy 000
6 Which ‘Humanism’? On the Italian theory of architecture, 1951–1969 000
Amir Djalali
7 Philosophical thinking as political praxis: Giorgio Agamben and
inoperative architecture 000
Camillo Boano
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8 Affective encounters amidst feminist futures in architecture? 000
Hélène Frichot
9 Repositioning: the after(s) and the end(s) of theory 000
Deborah Hauptmann
Part III: Beyond the image 000
10 Drawing Jerusalem: notes on Hans Bol’s Jerusalem, with Christ and the
Good Shepherd (1575) 000
Andrew Benjamin
11 Architectural drawing: architecture’s speculative visual history 000
Desley Luscombe
12 God’s eye view 000
Adam Jasper
Part IV: Critical displays 000
13 Aktion 507: politics become theory become praxis 000
Florian Kossak
14 Architecture and the neo avant-garde: some theories of history in
architectural criticism 000
Michael Chapman
15 Exhibits that matter: material gestures with theoretical stakes 000
Maarten Liefooghe
16 Repositioning: this think called crit … 000
Brian Hatton
Part V: Theories of things 000
17 Pragmatics: towards a theory of things 000
Gerald Adler
18 Ready, steady, cook with Bergson, Plato and Gordon Matta-Clark 000
Stephen Walker
19 Architecture’s thing and thingness of theory 000
Ivana Wingham
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Part VI: The transactions of architecture 000
20 Architecture and the promise of post-capitalism 000
Anthony Burke
21 Domestic, production, debt: for a theory of the informal 000
Platon Issaias
22 White, wide and scattered: picturing her housing career 000
Helen Runting and Hélène Frichot
23 Toward a theory of interior 000
Ross Exo Adams
24 Repositioning: theory now. Don’t excavate, change reality! 000
Roemer van Toorn
Part VII: Forms of engagement 000
25 (Un)political 000
Pippo Ciorra
26 Prince complex: narcissism and reproduction of the architectural mirror 000
Camilo Amaral
27 Less than enough: a critique of Aureli’s project 000
Douglas Spencer
28 Repositioning: having ideas 000
Mario Carpo
29 Post-sriptum: ‘but that is not enough’ 000
Teresa Stoppani
Index 000
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