Table of Contents

Introduction - 1: Architectural Theory in an Expanded Field - C. Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen
Introduction - 2: Reading the Handbook - C Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen
PART ONE: POWER/DIFFERENCE/EMBODIMENT
Introduction: Shifting Paradigms and Concerns - Hilde Heynen and Gwendolyn Wright
Architecture, Capitalism and Criticality - Ole W Fischer
Interrogating Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism - Jyoti Hosagrahar
Tendencies and Trajectories: Feminist Approaches in Architecture - Jane Rendell
Section 1 Bibliography
Citizenship - Ines Weizman
PART TWO: AESTHETICS/PLEASURE/EXCESS
Introduction: Architecture and Aesthetics - John Macarthur and Naomi Stead
Architectural Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern - Jorge Otero-Pailos
Formalism and Forms of Practice - Sandra Kaji-O′Grady
Art in (and of) Architecture: Autonomy and Medium - Bart Verschaffel
Section 2 Bibliography
Consumption - Ana Miljacki
PART THREE: NATION/WORLD/SPECTACLE
Introduction: Enacting Modernity - AbdouMaliq Simone
Rethinking the Nation - Abidin Kusno
Entangled Modernities in Architecture - Duanfang Lu
Notes on the Society of the Brand - Shiloh Krupar and Stefan Al
Section 3 Bibliography
Heritage - Fernando Diez
PART FOUR: HISTORY/MEMORY/TRADITION
Introduction: Time′s Arrows: Spaces of the Past - C Greig Crysler
Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity - Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Collective Memory Under Siege: The Case of ′Heritage Terrorism′ - M Christine Boyer
Concepts of Vernacular Architecture - Robert Brown and Daniel Maudlin
Section 4 Bibliography
Culture - Paul Walker
PART FIVE: DESIGN/PRODUCTION/PRACTICE
Introduction: Architecture′s Double-Bind - Dana Cuff
Prometheus Unchained: The Multiple Itineraries of Contemporary Professional Freedom - Paolo Tombesi
Manners of Working: Fabricating Representation in Digital Based Design - Christopher Hight
Plural Profession, Discrepant Practices - David Salomon
Section 5 Bibliography
Flows - Stephen Cairns
PART SIX: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/VIRTUALITY
Introduction: Technology, Science and Virtuality - Arie Graafland and Heidi Sohn
Virtual Architecture, Actual Media - N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon
Technology, Virtuality, Materiality - Antoine Picon
Architecture, Technology and the Body: From the Pre-Human to the Post-Human - Jonathan Hale
Section 6 Bibliography
Infrastructure - Delia Duong Ba Wendel
PART SEVEN: NATURE/ECOLOGY/SUSTAINABILITY
Introduction: Whither ′Earthly′ Architectures: Constructing Sustainability - Simon Guy
The Ecology Question and Architecture - Richard Ingersoll
Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in the Renewable City - Peter Droege
Tropical Variants of Sustainable Architecture: A Post-Colonial Perspective - Jiat-Hwee Chang
Section 7 Bibliography
Landscape - Kelly Shannon
PART EIGHT: CITY/METROPOLIS/TERRITORY
Introduction: Metropolis, Megalopolis and Meta-City - Brian McGrath and Grahame Shane
The Contemporary European Urban Project: Archipelago City, Diffuse City and Reverse City. - Paola Viganò
Slum as Theory: Mega-Cities and Urban Models - Vyjayanthi Rao
Common Lines of Flight towards the Open City - Deborah Natsios
Section 8 Bibliography
Housing - Iain Low

About the Author

Professor C. Greig Crysler holds the Arcus Chair for Gender, Sexuality and the Built Environment and is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California.  Professor Dr Stephen Cairns is Programme Leader of the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.  Hilde Heynen is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Leuven in the Netherlands. 

Reviews

I have been impressed by the quality of this handbook. Rather than simply edit and repackage familiar (but rightly famous) critical essays from leaders in the field, this book looks freshly at the field(s), and has commissioned intelligent and well-written chapters that cut the jargon and elucidate the various topics in a straightforward but serious manner.

The book arrived on my desk just as I was landed the task of running an M-Arch module in Architecture Culture, and I have no hesitation in recommending it as the set text. Indeed, I find a good number of the chapters (I′ve not read them all yet) complement well the lectures I have planned. Its price is reasonable given its encyclopaedic scope, and its production values are high. I particularly welcome the double-column layout - much easier to read!
*Gerald Adler*

The core of architectural theory for the past several decades has looked to architecture′s autonomous structures and formal procedures as its primary material for analysis. Now in this collection, architectural theory expands outward to interact with adjacent discourses such as sustainability, conservation, spatial practices, virtual technologies, and more. We have in The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory an example of the extreme generosity of architectural theory. It is a volume that designers and scholars of many stripes will welcome.
*K. Michael Hays*

Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, intentions and ways of knowing. This handbook provides a lucid and comprehensive introduction to this challenging and shifting terrain, and will be of great interest to students, academics and practitioners alike.
*Professor Iain Borden*

Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo.
*Architectural Histories (journal of the European Architectural History Network)*

Theory is dead, long live theory! Discussing an era some call post-critique and others the end of theory, the debate over  architectural critique and theory is more alive than ever. The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory draws an essential map for anyone who wants to participate in this debate... Although the critique of architecture has lost power with the advance of capitalism, exercises like this revive the value of theory, even in the intellectual context of contemporary pragmatism. The pedagogical value and the exemplary quality of this collaborative editorial process make the book a highly recommended reading.
*David H. Falagán*

This book is much more than a Handbook of Architectural Theory. It is a handbook of architecture, taking us through the most fundamental and creative thinking in structure, plan and form. It is at the same time a handbook of architectural history; of urbanism; of explorations into site, global city and mega-city; and of the topology and topography of space. None of the existing readers on architecture, urbanism or space have the breadth, the pedagogic value and amalgamation of creative thinking as this SAGE Handbook. A must as a reference resource.
*Scott Lash*