In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production
in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course,
but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of
interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as
well as others dissenting or eccentric--has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture
in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.
This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an
explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents
twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of
the essays appear here in English for the first time.

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