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OPPOSITIONS READER
(OPPOSITIONS). Hays, K. Michael, Editor. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. First Edition. Stout 4to. Printed Wrappers. Architecture Journal. Fine.. 704pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Massimo Vignelli and Julia Bloomfield. With contributors' biographies and a complete index to "Oppositions". "In its eleven year history, "Oppositions" - the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) - had an impact far beyond what its modest cover might suggest. Indeed, the journal set the agenda, introduced the key players, and published the seminal pieces in the theorization of architecture during the seventies and eighties. It is a testament to its enduring importance of the journal that its issues are still highly sought after today, prized (and priced) as collector's items, and found behind the desk at virtually every architectural library. For "Oppositions Reader", Harvard Professor K. Michael Hays has selected the most important essays from all twenty-six issues. Essays from the editors of the series - Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, and Kurt W. Forster - are included, along with texts by such noted architects, theorists, and historians as Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhoun, Leon Krier, Denise Scott Brown, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Mary McLeod, Giorgio Ciucci, and Rafael Moneo. Additional contributors include Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, George Baird, Denise Scott Brown, Stuart Cohen, Alan Colquhoun, Francesco Dal Co, William Ellis, Giorgio Grassi, Fred Koetter, Le Corbusier, Joan Ockman, Martin Pawley, Quatremere de Quincy, Colin Rowe, Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio, Jorge Silvetti, Manfredo Tafuri, Karel Teige, and Hajime Yatsuka. It is an understatement to say that this volume is indispensable for any scholar or student interested in contemporary architectural theory". A brand new, unfaded, most handsome example of the 1998 paperbound first edition of this uncommon, much sought-after compilation still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-56898-153-8 Inventory Number: 025644
