Architectural Theory Review 28:1
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hortence is the research centre for Architectural History, Theory and Criticism of the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles
hortence is the research centre for Architectural History, Theory and Criticism of the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles
Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies Edited by Wouter Van Acker & Steven Lauritano
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The untimely “postmoderns” figuring in this issue restore the convolutions that unmake the familiar story of the dialectical opposition to modernism. The papers examine unforeseen ways of reading antiquated designs and outmoded teachers, of interpolating time, and as such, challenging the prevailing theorisations of postmodern time consciousness. Simultaneously, these experiments in untimely teaching appear to be a productive site for moving beyond the critiques of pastiche aesthetics and the postmodern use of history as a kit of parts, or signs. The educators discussed—Charles Moore, René Furer, Dalibor Vesely, Marc Van de Steen, among others—with varying degrees of self-awareness, each responded to the uncertainty of their pedagogical contexts by embracing the disruptive potential of untimely ideas, hoping to counter present conditions, for the benefit of a time to come.
INTRODUCTION
Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies
Steven Lauritano and Wouter Van Acker
ARTICLES
Influence and Untimeliness in Modern Architecture:
A Conversation between Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Amanda Reeser Lawrence
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Amanda Reeser Lawrence
Crisis in the Culture Cabinet: O.M. Ungers, Colin Rowe and the Architekturtheorie Internationaler Kongress, TU Berlin, 1967
Steven Lauritano and Wouter Van Acker
Reform or Revolution: Architectural Theory in West Berlin and Zürich (1967-1972)
Alessandro Toti
Dalibor Vesely and the Model of the Late Baroque
Joseph Bedford
René Furer’s Semantic and Syntactic Analysis: Venturi and Vignola at ETH Zurich
Frida Grahn
Charles W. Moore and the Uses of History
Richard W. Hayes
Furniture as Program: Exhibiting, Educating and Professionalizing Interior Design at Belgium’s Saint Luke Schools in the 1980s
Benoît Vandevoort
REVIEWS
Book Review
Review of Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023, pp 216, ISBN 9780300263954
Michael Abrahamson