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1. Walter Benjamin and Architecture

   Edited by Gevork Hartoonian

   The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories. Issues such as technology and history have been considered central to the very modernity of architecture, but Benjamin’s reflection on...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Crisis of the Object

   The Architecture of Theatricality

   By Gevork Hartoonian

   Looking back over the twentieth century, Hartoonian discusses the work of three major architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi, in reference to their theoretical positions and historicizes present architecture in the context of the ongoing secularization of the myths...

   Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge