INTRODUCTIONThe Shifting Contours of Postwar Architectural TheorySebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde HeynenSECTION 1: Modernism and its DiscontentsMeaning and Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in ArchitectureAndré Loeckx and Hilde Heynen A Voice from the Margins: Robin Boyd and 1960s Architecture CulturePhilip GoadContaminations: Art, Architecture, and the Critical Vision of Lara-Vinca MasiniPeter LangArchitecture Becomes Programming: Invisible Technicians, Printouts, and Situated Theories in the 1960sMatthew AllenTroubled Dialogues: Intellectuality at a Crossroads at the Carrefour de l’Europe in BrusselsSebastiaan LoosenSECTION 2: Projects of TheoryInstitutionalized Critique? On the Re(birth) of Architectural Theory after Modernism: ETH and MIT ComparedOle W. FischerThinking Architecture, its Theory and History: A Case Study about Melvin CharneyLouis MartinDirtying the Real: Liane Lefaivre and the Architectural Stalemate with Emerging RealitiesAndrew TolandBetween Making and Acting: The Inherent Ambivalence of Arendtian Architectural TheoryPaul HolmquistCritical Regionalism: A not so Critical TheoryCarmen PopescuSECTION 3: The Misuses of HistoryThe Historiographical Invention of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Cultural Politics and the Return of the Lost ProjectRicardo RuivoEffete, Effeminate, Feminist: Feminizing Architecture TheorySandra Kaji-O’GradyAnthologizing Post-Structuralism: Architecture Ecriture, Gender, and SubjectivityKaren BurnsConsequences of Pragmatism: A Retrospect on “The Pragmatist Imagination”Joan OckmanCODAA Discipline in the MakingHilde HeynenCritical historiography of architectural theoryIt is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made.The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made.The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.Contributors: Matthew Allen (University of Toronto), Karen Burns (University of Melbourne), Ole W. Fischer (University of Utah), Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Rajesh Heynickx (KU Leuven), Paul Holmquist (Louisiana State University), Sandra Kaji-O’Grady (University of Queensland), Peter Lang (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm), André Loeckx (KU Leuven), Sebastiaan Loosen (KU Leuven), Louis Martin (Université du Québec à Montréal), Joan Ockman (University of Pennsylvania), Carmen Popescu (ENSAB, Rennes), Ricardo Ruivo (Architectural Association, London), Andrew Toland (University of Technology Sydney).