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Oppositions Bibliography


Bibliography: Oppositions, 1-26 (September 1973 - Spring 1984)

Oppositions proclaimed itself a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture and was published for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

The following is a list, by author, of all written material (essays, introductions, reviews, etc.) within the journals, with the exception of letters to the journal. The number preceding the titles refers to the Oppositions volume within which the text occurred.

Compliled by Stephen Lauf


List of Authors


Adorno
Agrest
Agrest & Gondelsonas
Ambasz
Anders
Anderson

Baird
Behne
Bernardi
Bloch
Bloomfield
Bohigas
Bois
Bonnefoi
Branzi
Brooks

Cacciari
Caron
Chasse
Chimacoff, Koetter, Korman, & Seligmann Ciucci
Ciucci
Cobb
Cohen, J-L
Cohen, S
Cohen, S & Hurtt
Colquhoun
Conklin
Corboz
Culot & Krier

Dal Co
Dal Co & Polano
de Gutman
de Quincy
de'Seta
Dluhosch
Drexler

Eardley
Eisenman

Eisenman, Frampton & Gandelsonas

Eisenman, Frampton, Gandelsonas & Vidler

Eisenstein
Ellis
Etlin
Erouart & Teyssot

Fischer
Forster
Frampton
Frank
Franzen
Fujii

Gass
Gondelsonas
Gorlin

Grassi
Gregh
Grumbach
Guillerme

Haag Bletter
Hamlin
Hines
Hochmann
Holenstein
Huff

Il Gruppo 7
Ingberman

Jacques & Vidler
Jencks
Johnson
Junod

Kreis
Krier
Koetter
Koolhaas & Oorthuys
Krauss

[Le] Corbusier-Saugnier
Le Corbusier
Libeskind
Lippert
Lipstadt
Lobell
Lorenz Van Zanten

Maitland
Maldonado
Maruyama & Yonei
Masiero
McLeod
Moneo
Moore, C
Moore, R
Moretti

Norberg-Schulz

Ockman
Oechslin
Oud

Pawley
Piranesi
Plattus
Polyzoides
Porphyrios
Punin

Riegl
Rossant
Rossi
Rowe
Rudolph
Rykwert

Scarpa
Schindler
Schneider
Schumacher
Schwitters

Scott Brown
Scully
Seligmann
Shapiro
Sidorov
Silvetti
Silverman
Slutzky
Smithson, A & P
Smithson, P
Sola-Morales
Starr
Stern

Tafuri
Taut
Taylor
Teige
Terragni
Teyssot
Tschumi

Ulen

Venturi
Vidler
von Moos

Wagner
Werckmeister
Werk und Zeit

Yatsuka

Zaknic
Zygas



Adorno, Theodor W.

17.

Functionalism Today




Agrest , Diana.

6.

Design versus Non-Design

11.

Architectural Anagrams: The Symbolic Performance of Skyscrapers

26.

Architecture of Mirror/Mirror of Architecture




Agrest, Diana and Gondelsonas, Mario

1.

Semiotics and Architecture: Ideological Consumption or Theoretical Work




Ambasz, Emilio

4.

A Sellection from Working Fables: A Collection of Design Tales for Skeptic Childern




Anders, Peter

22.

Monuments in the Wilderness




Anderson, Stanford

11.

Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens and the Cultural Policy of Historical Determinism

21.

Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens, the AEG, and Industrial Design

23.

Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens and the AEG Factory




George Baird

4.

Introduction to Karel Teige's Mundaneum, 1929 and Le Corbusier's In Defense of Architecture, 1933

4.

Architecture and Politics: A Polemical Dispute - A Critical Introduction to Karel Teige's "Mundaneum," 1929 and Le Corbusier's "In Defense of Architecture," 1933

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Behne, Adolf

22.

Art, Handicraft, Technology (1922)




Bernardi, Marziano

12.

"Amist Art and Literature"

12.

Letter published in Rassegna Italiana, April 1927




Bloch, Ernst

17.

Formative Education, Engineering Form, Ornament




Bloomfield, Julia

2.

A Bibliography of Alison and Peter Smithsons




Bohigas, Oriol

9.

Aldo Van Eyck or a New Amsterdam School

17.

Sartoris: The First Classicist of the Avant-Garde




Bois, Yve-Alain

11.

On Manfredo Tafuri's Theories et histoire de l'architecture




Bonnefoi, Christian

24.

Louis Kahn and Minimalism




Branzi, Andrea

24.

Letter to Tomas Maldonado, Editor, Casabella




Brooks, Peter

8.

The Text of the City




Cacciari, Massimo

21.

Eupalinos or Architecture




Caron, Julien

15/16.

A Villa of Le Corbusier, 1916




Chasse, Charles

21.

Didier Lenz and the Beuron School of Religious Art




Chimacoff, Alan, Koetter, Fred, Korman, Randall, and Seligmann, Werner

19/20.

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Le Corbusier, 1961-1963. Documentation




Ciucci, Giorgio

24.

The Invention of the Modern Movement




Cobb, Henry

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Cohen, Jean-Louis

23.

Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the U.S.S.R.




Cohen, Stuart

2.

Physical Context/Cultural Context: In-cluding it All




Cohen, Stuart and Steven Hurtt

19/20.

The Pilgrimage Chapel at Ronchamp: Its Architectural Structure and Typological Antecedents




Colquhoun, Alan

12.

From Bricolage to Myth, or how to put Humpty-Dumpty together again

14.

Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las Vegas, and Oberlin

12.

Form and Figure

24.

The Architecture of Gunnar Asplund

25.

Thoughts on Riegl

26.

Three Kinds of Historicism




Conklin, William J.

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Corboz, Andre

25.

Walks around the Horses




Culot, Maurice and Krier, Leon

14.

The Only Path for Architecture

24.

Open Letter to Tomas Maldonado, Editor Casabella




Dal Co, Francesco

9.

The "Allusions" of Richard Meier

12.

Roma Interrotta

22.

The Remoteness of die Moderne

23.

Notes Concerning the Phenomenology of the Limit in Architecture

26.

The Stones of the Void




Dal Co, Francesco and Polano, Sergio

12.

Interview with Albert Speer

13.

Criticism and Design

14.

Apparant Simplicity: Notes on Kurt Junghann's book Bruno Tait, 1880-1938




de Gutman, Antoine Quatremere

9.

Forum: Princeton's Beaux Arts and its New Academicism: From Labutut to the Program of Geddes




de Quincy, Quatremere

8.

Type




de'Seta, Cerare

13.

On Charles Jenck's Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture




Dluhosch, Eric

10.

The Failure of the Soviet Avant-gard: A Review of Sovetska Architektonicka Avantgarda by Jiri Kroha and Jiri Hruza




Drexler, Authur

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Eardley, Anthony

3.

Giraudoux and The Athens Charter




Eisenman, Peter

1.

From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens; or if you follow the Yellow Brick Road, it may not lead to Golder Garden

4.

Real and English: Destruction of the Box. I.

6.

Post-Functionalism

6.

Editorial introduction to essays on the Yale Mathematics Building (Rowe, Moore, Scully)

6.

Editorial introduction to Architecture and Architecture II: The Foreigners

7.

Editorial introduction to "We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey": Archiigram and the retreat from technology

7.

Editorial introduction to i 10

9.

Commentary (Oppositions)

10.

Beyond the Mirror: On the Writings of Philip Johnson

12.

Postscript: The Graves of Modernism

15/16.

Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign

19/20.

Second Reading




Eisenman, Frampton, Gandelsonas

1.

Editorial Statement

3.

Editorial Statement

4.

On Arquitecturas Bis




Eisenman, Frampton, Gandelsonas, Vidler

9.

Editorial




Eisenstein, Sergei

11.

Piranesi, Or The Fluidity of Forms

11.

The Gothic




Ellis, William

2.

On Reyner Banham's Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

3.

Forum: Under Glass

4.

Forum: Stocktaking

5.

Forum: Beaux

7.

Forum: Rossi

8.

Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition

10.

Forum/Drawing it out

18.

Type and Context in Urbanism: Colin Rowe's Contextualism

22.

Forum: Quant'e Bella




Etlin, Richard

8.

Landscapes of Eternity: Funerary Architecture and the Cemetery, 1793-1881




Erouart, Gilbert and Teyssot, George

13.

Bibliography of the Major Writings of Emil Kaufmann




Fischer, Katherine Fraser

15/16.

A Nature Morte, 1927




Forster, Kurt

9.

Stagecraft and Statecraft: The Architectural Integration of Public Life and Theatrical Spectacle in Scamozzi's Theater at Sabbioneta

15/16.

Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923

25.

Monument/Memory and the Mortality of Architecture




Frampton, Kenneth

1.

Industrialization and the Crises of Architecture

3.

Apropos Ulm: Cirriculum and Critical Theory

4.

On Reading Heigegger

4.

George Wittenborn, 1905-1974

4.

On Max Bill. A review of the Albright-Knox Exhibition Catalogue

6.

Constructivism: The Pursuit of an Elusive Sensibility

6.

Editorial introduction to Design versus Non-Design (Agrest)

6.

On Alison and Peter Smithsons' Without Rhetoric: An Architectural Aesthetic 1955-1972

7.

On Reyner Banham's The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

9.

On Nikolai Militin's Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities

10.

Commentary: Jiri Kroha and the Crisis of Post-Modernism

10.

L'Architecture Vivante Revisited

11.

Alvar Aalto and the Origins of his Style

12.

A Synoptic View of the Architecture of the Third Reich

14.

Mario Botta and the School of the Ticino

15/16.

Editor's Introduction (Le Corbusier 1905-1933)

15/16.

Le Corbusier and l'Esprit Nouveau

15/16.

The Dom-ino Syndrone

15/16.

Readings of the Dom-ino

15/16.

Apres le Purisme

19/20.

The Rise and Fall of the Radiant City: Le Corbusier 1928-1960

19/20.

The Dialectical Oculus

19/20.

Mariage des Contours

19/20.

Opus Circulatorum

19/20.

Culture and Civilization

21.

Introduction to Didier Lenz and the Beuron School of Religious Art

22.

Louis Kahn and the French Connection

22.

The Castellated Home

24.

Introduction to Casabella and the Reading of History: An Exchange of Correspondence bewteen Maurice Culot and Leon Krier with Tomas Maldonado, and Andrea Branzi with Tomas Maldonado




Frank, Suzanne

7.

Commentary, Bibliography, and Trans-lations of i 10




Franzen, Ulrich

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Fujii, Hiromi

22.

Architectural Metamorphology: In Quest of the Machanism of Meaning




Gass, William H.

25.

Monumentality/Mentality




Gondelsonas, Mario

5.

Neo-Functionalism

5.

Aldo Rossi: The Idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery

17.

From Structure to Subject: The Formation of an Architectural Language




Gorlin, Alexander C.

19/20.

An Analysis of the Governor's Palace of Chandigarh




Grassi, Giorgio

21.

Avant-Garde and Continuity




Gregh, Eleanor

15/16.

The Dom-ino Idea




Grumbach, Antoine

8.

The Promenades of Paris




Guillerme, Jacques

10.

"The Idea of Architecture Language" A Critical Inquiry




Haag Bletter, Rosemarie

4.

On Martin Frohlich's Gottfried Semper

13.

Opaque Transparency




Hamlin, A. D. F.

17.

"An Appreciation of the Author" from Architectural Record, May 1912




Hines, Thomas, S.

21.

Designing for the Motor Age: Richard Neutra and the Automobile




Hochmann, Elaine

18.

Confrontation: 1933 Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich




Holenstein, Elmar

24.

Excursus: Monofunctionalism in Architecture between the Wars (Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus)




Huff, William S.

3.

Symmetry: Man's Aesthetic Response Man's Contemplation on Himself

6.

Symmetry: Man's Conceptualization of the Universe

10.

Symmetry: Man's Ovservation of the Natural Environment




Il Gruppo 7

6.

Architecture

6.

Architecture (II): The Foreigners

12.

Architecture (III): Unpreparedness--Incomprehension--Prejudices

12.

Architecture (IV): A New Archaic Era

12.

Reply [to Bernardi, Marziano] published in Rassegna Italiana, May 1927




Ingberman, Sima

13.

Normative and Evolutionary Housing Prototypes in germany and Austria: The Viennese Superblocks, 1919-1934




Jacques, Annie and Vidler, Anthony (compilers)

8.

Chronology: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1671-1900




Jencks, Charles

3.

reply to Frampton's On Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas




Johnson, Philip

2.

Rejected Architects, Creative Art, 1931

2.

The Berlin Building Exposition of 1931, T-Square, 1932

2.

Architecture in the Third Reich, Hound & Horn, 1933

10.

Reflections: On Style and the International Style; On Post-Modernism; On Architecture




Junod, Phillipe

21.

Future in the Past




Kreis, Barbara

21.

The Idea of the Dom-Kommuna and the Dilemma of the Soviet Avant-Garde




Krier, Leon

14.

The Consumption of Culture

24.

Vorwarts, Kameraden, Wir Mussen Zuruck (Forwar, Comrades, We Must Go Back)




Koetter, Fred

3.

On Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas

19/20.

[review of] Le Corbusier at Work




Koolhaas, Rem and Oorthuys, Gerrit

2.

Ivan Leonidov's Dom Narkomtjazjprom, Moscow

3.

The Architect's Ball - A Vignette, 1931




Krauss, Rosalind

2.

The Fountainhead




[Le] Corbusier-Saugnier

5.

Contemporary Architecture




Le Corbusier

4.

In Defense of Architecture

15/16.

The Significance of the Garden-City of Weissenhof, Stuttgart (1928)

18.

The Mosques




Libeskind, Daniel

21.

"Deus ex Machina"/"Machina ex Deo" Aldo Rossi's Theater of the World




Lippert, Kevin C.

26.

Introduction to Piranesi's Thoughts on Architecture




Lipstadt, Helene

8.

Housing the Bourgeoisie: Cesar Daly and The Ideal Home




Lobell, Mimi

4.

Postscript: Kahn, Penn, and the Philadelphia School




Lorenz Van Zanten, Ann

8.

Form and Society: Cesar Daly and the Revue Generale de l'Architecture




Maitland, Barry

15/16.

The Grid




Maldonado, Tomas

24.

Open Reply to Maurice Culot and Leon Krier

24.

Reply to Andrea Branzi




Maruyama, Hiroshi, and Yonei, Tomoyoshi (deliniators)

22.

House/Pharmacy, Chofu, Tokyo. Hiromi Fujii, architect, 1980




Masiero, Roberto

17.

Postscript to Adorno's Functionalism Today




McLeod, Mary

19/20.

Le Corbusier and Algiers

19/20.

Bibliography: Plans, 1-13 (1931-1932); Plans (bi-monthly), 1-8 (1932); Bulletin des Groupes Plans, 1-4 (1933)




Moneo, Rafael

7.

On James Stirling: Buildings and Projects 1950-1974

13.

On Typology




Moore, Charles

3.

After a New Architecture: The Best Shape for a Chimera

6.

Conclusion [to the Yale Mathematics Building Competition]




Moore, Richard A.

19/20.

Alchemical and Mythical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle 1947-1965




Moretti, Luigi

4.

The Value of Profiles - Structures and Sequences of Spaces

4.

The Value of Profiles




Norberg-Schulz, Christian

18.

Kahn, Heideggar and the Language of Architecture




Ockman, Joan

24.

The Most Interesting Form of Lie




Oechslin, Werner

24.

Critical Note to Elmar Holenstein's Criticism of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus




Oud, J.J.P.

7.

International architecture: Werkbund Exhibition, "The Dwelling," July-September 1927, Stuttgart.




Pawley, Martin

7.

"We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey": Archiigram and the retreat from technology




Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

26.

Thoughts on Architecture




Plattus, Alan

3.

On Bernhard Leitner's The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Docu-mentation




Polyzoides, Stefanos

18.

Schlinder, Lovell, and the Newport Beach House, Los Angeles, 1921-1926




Porphyrios, Demetrius

8.

The 'End' of Styles

22.

The Retrieval of Memory: Alvar Aalto's Typological Conception of Design




Punin, Nikolai

10.

Pamiatnik III Internationala (Monument to the Third International): A project by the artist V. E. Tatlin




Riegl, Alois

25.

The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin




Rossant, James S.

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Rossi, Aldo

5.

The Blue of the Sky

26.

Recent Works




Rowe, Colin

1.

Neoclassicism and Modern Architecture

2.

Character and Composition; or Some Vicissitudes of Architectural Vocabulary in the Nineteenth Century

6.

Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building




Rudolph, Paul

4.

Alumni Day Speech: Yale School of Architecture, February 1958

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Rykwert, Joseph

7.

Classic and Neo-Classic




Scarpa, Ludovica

14.

Introduction to Taut's The Earth--A Good Home




Schindler, Rudolph M.

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1926

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 21 March 1926

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 4 April 1926

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1926

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 18 April 1926

18.

"Care of the Body" Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1926




Schneider, Bernhard

24.

Postscript: Non-functionalist Function-alism




Schumacher, Thomas

9.

From Gruppo 7 to the Danteum: A Critical Introduction to Terragni's Relazione Sul Danteum

9.

Postscript to From Gruppo 7 to the Danteum: A Critical Introduction to Terragni's Relazione Sul Danteum




Schwitters, Kurt

7.

Stuttgart, "The Dwelling," Werkbund Exhibition




Scott Brown, Denise

5.

On Architectural Formalism and Social Concern: A Discourse for Social Planners and Radical Chic Architects

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Scully, Vincent

6.

The Yale Mathematics Building: Some Remarks on Siting

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Seligmann, Werner

7.

Runcorn: Historical Precedent and the Rational Design Process




Shapiro, Ellen R.

6.

Introduction [to Arhictecture and Architecture II: The Foreigners]

12.

Introduction [to 12. Architecture (III): Unpreparedness -- Incomprehension -- Prejudices and Architecture (IV): A New Archaic Era




Sidorov, A. A.

10.

Review of N. Punin's Pamiatnik III Internationala




Silvetti, Jorge

9.

The Beauty of Shadows




Silverman, Debora L.

8.

The 1889 Exhibition: The Crisis of Bourgeois Individualism




Slutzky, Robert

19/20.

Aqueous Humor




Smithson, Alison and Peter

4.

The Space Between




Smithson, Peter

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Sola-Morales, Ignacio

23.

Critical Discipline




Starr, S. Frederick

23.

Le Corbusier and the U.S.S.R.: New Documentation




Stern, Robert A. M.

4.

Yale 1950-1965

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition

10.

The Evolution of Philip Johnson's Glass house, 1947-1948




Tafuri, Manfredo

3.

L'Architecture das la Boudoir: The language of criticism and the criticism of language

5.

"European Graffiti." Five x Five = Twenty-five

11.

Giuseppe Terragni: Subject and "Mask"

11.

The Dialectics of the Avant-garde: Piranesi and Eisenstein

17.

The Historical 'Project'




Taut, Bruno

14.

The Earth--A Good Home




Taylor, Brian Brace

15/16.

Technology, Society, and Social Control in Le Coprbusier's Cite de Refuge, Paris 1933




Teige, Karel

4.

Mundaneum




Terragni, Giuseppe

9.

Relazione Sul Danteum (1938)




Teyssot, Georges

13.

Emil Kaufmann and the Architecture of Reason: Klassizismus and "Revolutionary Architecture"

14.

John Soane and the Birth of Style (notes on the architectural project in the years around 1800)




Tschumi, Bernard

7.

Architecture and Transgression




Ulen (a pseudonym)

5.

The Exhibitions in Russia




Venturi, Robert

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition




Vidler, Anthony

1.

News from the Realm of No-where

5.

The Architecture of the Lodges; Ritual Form and Associational Life in the Late Enlightenment

6.

Editorial introduction to Constructivism: The Pursuit of an Elusive Sensibility

7.

The Third Typology

7.

Introduction to Runcorn: Historical Precedent and the Rational Design Process

7.

Editorial introduction to Classic and Neo-Classic

7.

Editorial introduction to Architecture and Transgression

8.

Academicism: Modernism

8.

Editorial introduction: Cemeteries of Life and Death

8.

Editorial introduction: Houseing the Middle Classes

8.

Editorial introduction: Promenades for Leisure

8.

Editorial introduction: Exhibitions of Industry and Empire

8.

Editorial introduction: The Production of Types

8.

The Idea of type: The Transformation of the Academic Ideal, 1750-1830

8.

Editorial introduction: The Comsuption of Styles

8.

Editorial introduction: The dream of a New Architecture

8.

Introduction to Type

8.

in Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition

9.

Commentary (Oppositions)

9.

Commentary (Theory)

13.

Postscript to Dal Co's Criticism and Design

14.

Inscribing Piranesi

15/16.

The Abstraction of History

15/16.

Universial Panopticism

17.

After Historicism

19/20.

Taylorizing Architecture

25.

The "Art" of History: Monumental Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Quatremere de Quincy




von Moos, Stanislaus

19/20.

Le Corbusier as Painter




Wagner, Otto

17.

"The Development of a Great City" from Architectural Record, May 1912




Werckmeister, O.K.

25.

Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, and the Angel of History




Werk und Zeit

17.

Report of the Discussion with Theodor W. Adorno from Werk und Zeit, November/December 1965




Yatsuka, Hajime

22.

Hiromi Fujii's Vision-Reversing Machine

23.

Architecture in the Urban Desert: A Critical Introduction to Japanese Architecture After Modernism




Zaknic, Ivan

18.

Of Le Corbusier's Eastern Journey




Zygas, Kestutis Paul

5.

The Magazine Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet (Commentary, Bibliography and Translations)

10.

Punin's and Sodorov's Views of Tatlin's Tower