Introduction

TYPE READINGS
Session 1
Required

Wigley, Mark. "Story-time." Assemblage 27 (1995): 80–94.

Jarzombek, Mark. "Un-messy Realism and the Decline of the Architectural Mind." Perspecta 40 (2008): 82–4.

Recommended

Hays, K. Michael. "Critical Architecture Between Culture and Form." Perspecta 21 (1984): 14–29.

———. "Theory Constitutive Conventions and Theory Change." Assemblage, no. 1 (1986): 116–28.

Buy at Amazon Lavin, Sylvia. "The Temporary Contemporary." In Perspecta 34. MIT Press, 2003, pp. 128. ISBN:9780262523394.

Buy at Amazon Barthes, Roland. "What is Criticism?" In Critical Essays. Translated by Richard Howard. Northwestern University Press, 1972. ISBN:9780810105898. [Preview with Google Books]

Session 2
Required

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro. "A Scientific Autobiography." Harvard Design Magazine 21, Fall 2003 / Winter 2004, 5–15.

Whiting, Sarah. "Critical Reflections." Assemblage 41 (2000): 88–9.

Eisenman, Peter. "Autonomy and the Will to the Critical." Assemblage 41 (2000): 90–1.

Somol, R. E. "In the Wake of Assemblage." Assemblage 41 (2000): 92–3.

Martin, Reinhold. "Double Agency." Assemblage 41 (2000): 49.

Kurgan, Laura. "Trying not to Avoid Propositions Altogether." Assemblage 41 (2000): 37.

Buy at Amazon Van Toorn, Roemer. "Beyond Wonderland." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 10. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Arets, Wiel. "Different Strategies." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 69–71. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Mertins, Detlef. "Job Description." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 335. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at AmazonSpeaks, Michael. "Design Intelligence." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 416–21. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Allen, Stan, and James Corner. "Urban Natures." In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Edited by Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 16–7. ISBN: 9781580931342.

Recommended

Buy at Amazon Allen, Stan. "Revising Our Expertise." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 64–6. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Maas, Winy. "Architecture is a Device." In Hunch 6/7: 109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple And Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today And Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow. Educational Studies Press, 2003, pp. 321–4. ISBN: 9789080536265. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Sorkin, Michael. "The Avant-Garde in Time of War." In The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004, pp. 22–3. ISBN: 9781580931342.

Peruse

Buy at Amazon Tschumi, Bernard, and Irene Cheng. The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century. The Monacelli Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781580931342.

Buy at Amazon Sigler, Jennifer, and Roemer Van Toorn. "The Berlage Institute Report." In Hunch 6/7. Educational Studies Pr, 2003. ISBN: 9789080536265.

Assemblage 41 (2000).

Buy at Amazon Somol, R. E., and Sarah Whiting, eds. Log 5. Anyone Corporation, 2005. ISBN: 9780974652146.

Harvard Design Magazine 20, Spring/Summer 2004.