OPPOSITIONS
A JOURNAL FOR IDEAS AND CRITICISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Nos. 1-25

Peter Eisenmann, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas,
Anthony Vidler, Kurt Forster (editors)

First editions. 8.5 x 9.75 perfect-bound softcover legendary journal published from 1973 to 1982 that attempted to reconcile the embedded traditions of Modernism with contemporary advances in architecture and urban theory. Highly recommended for both form and content.

OPPOSITIONS 1 [September 1973; 102 pages] Contents:

• Neoclassicism and Modern Architecture by Colin Rowe
• From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens; or if you follow the Yellow Brick Road, it may not lead to Golders Green by Peter Eisenman
• Industrialization and the Crises in Architecture by Kenneth Frampton: includes Russian Avant-Garde Work
• News from the Realm of No-Where by Anthony Vidler
• Semiotics and Architecture: Ideological Consumption of Theoretical Work by Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas

OPPOSITIONS 2 [January 1974; 124 pages] Contents:

• Physical Context/Cultural Context: Including it All by Stuart Cohen
• Character or Composition; or Some Vicissitudes of Architectural Vocabulary in the Nineteenth Century by Colin Rowe
• The Fountainhead by Rosalind Krauss
• William Ellis on Reyner Banham "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies"
• Rejected Architects: The Berlin Building Exposition of 1931, Architecture of the Third Reich by Philip Johnson: 9 pages with 6 b/w illustrations
• Ivan Leonidov's Dom Narkomtjajprom, Moscow by Rem Koolhaas and Gerrit Oorthuys: 9 pages with 14 b/w illustrations
• A Bibliography of Alison and Peter Smithson

OPPOSITIONS 3 [May 1974; 122 pages] Contents:

• After a New Architecture by Charles Moore: 16 pages with 15 b/w illustrations
• Apropos Ulm
• L'Architecture dans le Boudoir by Manfredo Tafuri
• Symmetry by William Huff
• Giradoux and "The Athens Charter" by Anthony Eardley
• The Architects' Ball--A Vignette, 1931 by Rem Koolhaas
• Reviews, Letters and Forum
• Fred Koetter on Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, "Learning from Las Vegas"
• Kenneth Frampton on Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver, "Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation"
• Alan Plattus on Bernhard Leiter "The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein"

OPPOSITIONS 4 [October 1974; 168 pages] Contents:

• On Heidegger by Kenneth Frampton
• George Wittenborn, 1905-1974 by Kenneth Frampton
• Real and English by Peter Eisenman
• Yale 1950-1965 by Robert A. M. Stern
• Kahn, Penn, and the Philadelphia School by Mimi Lobell
• A Selection from Working Fables by Emilio Ambasz
• The Space Between by Alison and Peter Smithson
• Karel Teige's Mundaneum, 1929 (9 pages w/ 6 b/w illustrations) and Le Corbusier's In Defense of Architecture, 1929 (17 pages w/ 7 b/w illustrations)
• Luigi Moretti: The Value of Profiles, 1951 and Structures and Sequences of Spaces, 1952
• Paul Rudolph: Alumni Day Speech: Yale School of Architecture, February 1958
• Reviews (includes "On Max Bill. A Review of the Albright-Knox Exhibition Catalog: 4 pages w/ 5 b/w illustrations), Letters and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 5 [Summer 1976; 136 pages] Contents:

• Neo-Functionalism by Mario Gandelsonas
• Aldo Rossi: The Idea of Architecture and the Modena Cemetery by Rafael Moneo
• The Blue of the Sky by Aldo Rossi
• American Graffiti: Five X Five = Twenty-five by Manfredo Tafuri
• The Architecture of the Lodges: Ritual Form and Associational Life in the Late Enlightenment
• On Architectural Formalism and Social Concern: A Discourse for Social Planners and Radical Chic Architects by Denise Scott Brown
• "Veshch/Gegenstand/Objet": Commentary, Bibliography, and Translations by Kestusis Paul Zygas (El Lissitzky designed the covers for "Veshch"; includes two translated articles by Corbusier-Saugnier and Ulen)
• Reviews, Letters and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 6 [Fall 1976; 108 pages] Contents:

• Post-Functionalism by Peter Eisenman
• Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building by Colin Rowe
• Conclusion by Charles Moore
• The Yale Mathematics Building: Some Remarks on Siting by Vincent Scully
• Constructivism: The Pursuit of an Elusive Sensibility by Kenneth Frampton (18 pages with 25 b/w illustrations)
• Design versus Non-Design by Diana Agrest
• Symmetry: An Appreciation of its Presence in Man's Consciousness by William S. Huff
• Gruppo Sette: "Architecture" (1926) and "Architecture (II): The Foreigners" (1927)
• Reviews, Letters and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 7 [Winter 1976; 102 pages] Contents:

• The Third Typology by Anthony Vidler
• Runcorn: Historical Precedent and the Rational Design Process by Werner Seligman
• "We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey": Archigram and the Retreat from Technology by Martin Pawley
• Classic and Neo-classic by Joseph Rykwert
• Architecture and Transgression by Bernard Tschumi
• "i 10": Commentary, Bibliography, and Translations by Suzanne Frank: includes two translated articles by J. J. P. Oud and Kurt Schwitters (a late 1920s Dutch magazine edited by Arthur Muller Lehning, Willem Pijper, J. J. P. Oud, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy).
• Reviews, Letters and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 8 [Spring 1977; 178 pages]Contents:

• Paris under the Academy: City and Ideology SPECIAL EDITOR: Anthony Vidler
• Academicism: Modernism by Anthony Vidler
• The Text of the City by Peter Brooks
• Landscapes of Eternity by Richard A. Etlin
• Housing the Bourgeoisie by Helene Lipstadt
• The Promenades of Paris by Antoine Grumbach
• The 1889 Exhibition by Debora L. Silverman
• The Idea of Type by Anthony Vidler
• The 'End' of Styles by Demetrius Porphyrios
• Form and Society by Ann Lorenz Van Zanten
• Type by Quatremere de Quincy
• Chronology: The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1671-1900 Compiled by Annie Jacques and Anthony Vidler
• Forum: The Beaux-Arts Exhibition: commentaries by Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph, Denise Scott-Brown, Vincent Scully, Peter Smithson, Robert Venturi, and Arthur Drexler among others.

OPPOSITIONS 9 [Summer 1977; 124 pages] Contents:

• Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler
• The "Allusions" of Richard Meier by Francesco Dal Co
• Aldo Van Eyck or a New Amsterdam School by Oriol Bohigas
• The Beauty of Shadows by Jorge Silvetti
• Stagecraft and Statecraft: The Architectural Integration of Public Life and Theatrical Spectacle in Scamozzi's Theater at Sabbiobetta by Kurt W. Forster
• Relazione Sul Danteum, 1938 by Giuseppe Terragni
• Reviews, Letters, and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 10 [Fall 1977; 112 pages] Contents:

• Behind the Mirror: On the Writings of Philip Johnson by Peter Eisenman
• Reflections: On Style and the International Style; On Post-Modernism; On Architecture by Philip Johnson
• The Idea of Architectural Language: A Critical Inquiry by Jacques Guillerme
• The Failure of the Soviet Avant-Garde: A Review by Eric Dluhosch of Sovetska Architektonicka Avantgarda by Jiri Kroha and Jiri Hruza (26 pages w/ 35 b/w illustrations)
• The Evolution of Philip Johnson's Glass House, 1947-1948 by Robert A. M. Stern: 12 pages with 39 b/w illustrations
• Punin's and Sidorov's Views of Tatlin's Tower
• Monument to the Third International by Nikolai Punin
• Review of Punin's Pamphlet about Tatlin's Monument to the Third International
• Symmetry 5: Man's Observation of the Natural Environment by William S. Huff
• Reviews and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 11 [Winter 1977; 130 pages] Contents:

• Giuseppe Terragni: Subject and "Mask" by Manfredo Tafuri (25 pages w/ 52 b/w illustrations)
• Architectural Anagrams: The Symbolic Performance of Skyscrapers by Diana Agrest (26 pages w/ 56 b/w illustrations)
• Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens and the Cultural Policy of Historical Determinism
• The Dialectics of the Avant-Garde: Piranesi and Eisenstein by Manfredo Tafuri
• Piranesi, or the Fluidity of Form by Sergei Eisenstein
• The Gothic by Sergei Eisenstein
• Reviews: Alvar Aalto and the Origins of his Style (6 pages w/ 18 b/w illustrations)

OPPOSITIONS 12 [Spring 1978; 120 pages] Contents:

• From Bricolage to Myth: or how to put Humpty-Dumpty together again by Alan Colquhoun
• The Graves of Modernism by Peter Eisenman
• Form and Figure by Alan Colquhoun
• Interview with Albert Speer by Francesco Dal Co and Sergio Polano
• A Synoptic View of the Architecture of the Third Reich by Kenneth Frampton
• Gruppo Sette "Architecture (III): Unpreparedness--Incomprehension--Prejudice" (1927) and "Architecture (IV): A New Archaic Era" (1927)
• Reviews and Letters

OPPOSITIONS 13 [Summer 1978; 132 pages] Contents:

• Criticism and Design by Francesco Dal Co
• Postscript by Anthony Vidler
• On Typology by Rafael Moneo
• Emil Kaufmann and the Architecture of Reason: Klassizismus and "Revolutionary Architecture"
• The Vienna Superblocks by Joachim Schlandt and O. M. Ungers: 30 pages w/ 66 b/w illustrations
• Reviews and Letters

OPPOSITIONS 14 [Fall 1978; 112 pages] Contents:

• Mario Botta and the School of the Ticino by Kenneth Frampton: 25 pages w/ 41 b/w illustrations
• Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las vegas, and Oberlin by Alan Colquhoun
• The Only Path for Architecture by Maurice Culot and Leon Krier
• The Consumption of Culture by Leon Krier
• John Soane and the Birth of Style by Georges Teyssot: 24 pages with 35 b/w illustrations
• The Earth--A Good Home by Bruno Taut
• Review, Letters, and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 15/16 [Winter/Spring 1979; 204 pages] Contents:

• Le Corbusier 1905-1933 edited by Kenneth Frampton
• Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
• Le Corbusier and 'L'Esprit Nouveau' by Kenneth Frampton: 116 b/w illustrations covering Le Corbusier's entire career
• The Dom-ino Idea by Eleanor Gregh: 12 b/w illustrations
• The Grid by Barry Maitland: 43 b/w illustrations
• Aspects of Modernism: Maison Dom-ino and the Self-Referential Sign by Peter Eisenman (19 b/w illustrations)
• Antiquity and Modernity in the La Roche-Jeanneret Houses of 1923 (34 b/w illustrations)
• A Nature, Morte, 1927 by Katherine Fraser Fischer (12 b/w illustrations)
• Technology, Society, and Social Control in le Corbusier's Cite de Refuge, Paris, 1933: 22 b/w illustrations
• A Villa of Le Corbusier, 1916 by Julien Caron: 13 b/w illustrations
• The Significance of the Garden-City of Weissenhof, Stuttgart (1928) by Le Corbusier

OPPOSITIONS 17 [Summer 1979; 116 pages] Contents:

• From Structure to Subject: The Formation of an Architectural Language by Mario Gandelsonas
• Functionalism Today by Theodor W. Adorno
• Postscript by Roberto Masiero
• Formative Education, Engineering, Form, Ornament by Ernst Bloch
• Report of the Discussion with Theodor from Werk und Zeit
• The 'Historical' Project by Manfredo Tafuri
• Sartoris: The First Classicist of the Avant-Garde by Oriol Bohigas: 22 pages with 36 b/w illustrations
• The Development of a Great City by Otto Wagner: 15 pages with 12 b/w illustrations
• Appreciation of the Author by A. D. F. Hamlin (1912)

OPPOSITIONS 18 [Fall 1979; 100 pages] Contents:

• Type and Context in Urbanism: Colin Rowe's Contextualism by William Ellis
• Kahn, Heidegger and the Language of Architecture by Christian Norberg-Schulz: 20 pages with 21 b/w illustrations
• Confrontation: 1933 Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich
• Schindler, Lovell, and the Newport Beach House, Los Angeles, 1921-1926: 14 pages with 22 b/w illustrations
• "Care of the Body" Six essays for the Los Angeles Times, 1926 by Rudolph M. Schindler
• Of Le Corbusier's Eastern Journey by Ivan Zaknic: 6 pages w/ 3 b/w illustrations
• The Mosques by Le Corbusier: 8 pages with 9 b/w illustrations

OPPOSITIONS 19/20 [Winter/Spring 1980; 222 pages] Contents:

• Le Corbusier 1933 - 1960 edited by Kenneth Frampton
• The Rise and Fall of the Radiant City: Le Corbusier 1928-1960 by Kenneth Frampton (24 b/w illustrations)
• Aqueous Humor by Robert Slutzky (45 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier and Algiers by Mary McLeod (41 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier as Painter by Stanislaus von Moos (21 b/w illustrations)
• Alchemical and Mythical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle, 1947-1965 (48 b/w illustrations)
• The Pilgrimage Chapel at Ronchamp by Stuart Cohen and Steven Hurtt (38 b/w illustrations)
• An Analysis of the Governor's Palace of Chandigarh by Alexander C. Gorlin (57 b/w illustrations)
• Plans: Bibliography by Mary McLeod (26 b/w illustrations)‹early 1930s French magazine whose contributors included Marcel Breuer, Raoul Dufy, Walter Gropius, Arthur Honegger, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Fillipo Marinetti, Frans Masereel, Jean Picart le Doux, Aldo Rossi, Karel Teige, and many more.
• The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. Le Corbusier, 1961-1963: Documentation (21 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier at Work: Review (8 b/w illustrations)

OPPOSITIONS 21 [Summer 1980; 118 pages] Contents:

• "Deus Ex Machina"/"Machina ex Deo" Aldo Rossi's Theater of the World by Daniel Libeskind
• Avant-Garde and Continuity by Giorgio Grassi
• Designing for the Motor Age: Richard Neutra and the Automobile (18 pages with 32 b/w illustrations)
• The Idea of the Don-Kommuna and the Dilemma of the Soviet Union Avant-Garde: 26 pages with 42 b/w illustrations
• Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens, the AEG, and Industrial Design (20 pages with 21 b/w illustrations)
• Didier Lenz and the Beuron School of Religious Art by Charles Chasse
• Reviews, Letters, and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 22 [Fall 1980; 122 pages] Contents:

• Hiromi Fujii's Vision-Reversing Machine by Hajime Yatsuka
• House/Pharmacy, Chofu, Tokyo by Hiromi Fujii
• Architectural Metamorphology by Hiromi Fujii
• Louis Kahn and the French Connection
• The Retrieval of Memory: Alvar Aalto's Typological Conception of Design by Dimitri Porphyrios
• The Remoteness of "die Moderne"
• Art, Handicraft, Technology (1922) by Adolf Behne
• Reviews and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 23 [Winter 1981; 152 pages] Contents:

• Architecture in the Urban Desert: A Critical Introduction to Japanese Architecture After Modernism by Hajime Yatsuka
• Notes Concerning the Phenomenology of the Limit in Architecture by Francesco Dal Co
• Modern Architecture and Industry: Peter Behrens and the AEG Factories by Stanford Anderson (36 pages w/ 48 b/w illustrations)
• Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the U.S.S.R. by Jean-Louis Cohen
• Le Corbusier and the U.S.S.R.: New Documentation by S. Frederick Starr
• Reviews, Letters, and Forum

OPPOSITIONS 24 [Spring 1981; 110 pages] Contents:

• Louis Kahn and Minimalism by Christian Bonnefoi: 24 pages with 28 b/w illustrations
• Vorwarts, Kameraden, Wir Mussen, Zuruck by Leon Krier
• The Most Interesting Form of Lie by Joan Ockman
• Excursus: Monofunctionalism in Architecture Between the Wars (Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus) by Elmar Holenstein: 14 pages with 21 b/w illustrations
• Critical Note to Elmar Holenstein's Criticism of Le Corbusier's Monofunctionalism by Werner Oechslin
• Non-functionalist Functionalism by Bernhard Schneider
• The Invention of the Modern Movement by Giorgio Ciucci: 24 pages with 28 b/w illustrations
• "Casabella" and the Reading of History: Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
• Reviews

OPPOSITIONS 25 [Fall 1982; 146 pages] Contents:

• Monument/Memory and the Mortality of Architecture by Kurt W. Forster
• The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin by Alois Riegl
• The "Art" of History: Monumental Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Quatremere de Quincy by Anthony Vidler
• Toward a Modern Museum: From Riegl to Giedion by Ignasi de Sola-Morales
• Thoughts on Riegl by Alan Colquhoun
• Walks Around the Horses by Andre Corboz
• Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee, and the Angel of History by O. K. Werckmeister
• Monumentality/Mentality

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The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism. It began as a core group of young architects seeking alternatives to traditional forms of education and practice. Peter Eisenman was appointed as the Institutes first executive director followed by Anthony Vidler (1982), Mario Gandelsonas (1983) and Stephen Petersen (1984). In 1985 the Institute ceased to exist. ... Like tears in the rain.

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