Between Culture and Form
Yale University, School of Architecture
Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form
Author(s): K. Michael Hays
Source: Perspecta, Vol. 21 (1984), pp. 14-29
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta.
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K. Michael ays
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Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form
Author(s): K. Michael Hays
Source: Perspecta, Vol. 21 (1984), pp. 14-29
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1567078 .
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K. Michael ays
H
Critical rchitecture
A
C a Between ulture nd Form
as a That architecture, activity nd a knowledge,is fundamentally culturalenterprise ayhardly eema s m contentious roposition. nd yet
A
p t questionsconcerningheprecisenature i b of the reciprocalnfluencesetween cultureand architecturalorm ring f b and o opposingtheories farchitecture its into interpretation forcefullay.' p a
In thisessayI shall examine critical o t architecture,ne resistanto theselfo confirming,onciliatoryperations fa c o c a t dominant ulture nd yetirreducibleo f s a purely ormal tructureisengaged d from hecontingenciesfplace and t o time. A reinterpretationa few of projectsby Mies van derRohe will o a e provide xamples fa critical rchitecture a the thatclaimsforitself place between efficientepresentation preexisting of r
d