title: Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde (Writing Architecture)
author:  K. Michael Hays 
description: "At the very moment when the death of theory by the victorious sword of the real has been loudly proclaimed, Michael Hays' lyrical return to the 1970s when architecture first fully realized its potential to become a conceptual practice is both welcome and much needed. His close attention to key works by Hejduk, Eisenman, and Rossi uncovers striking connections between this commonly repressed substratum and the instrumental shifts recently taken by architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas and persuasively turns the 'reality' of contemporary architecture upside down to reveal our new 'real' to be driven by forces more mysterious and intangible than ever."--Sylvia Lavin, Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD Programs, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design<br /><br />"K. Michael Hays has written an elegant and incisive analysis of the changing ontologies and political strategies of late avant-garde architecture. "Architecture's Desire" opens up architecture's post-1960s inventions to new ways of thinking to explore the sometimes wild and often impossible desires immanent within architecture, and to follow the unpredictable movements and forces that architecture most recently embodies and makes possible. An exciting view of the unconscious of architecture!"--Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and author of "Architecture from the Outside"
zlib_text: The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with
  Architecture
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  Contents
  Notes on Contributors
  Acknowledgements
  Introduction:  Philosophy and Architecture: Encounters and Missed
  Encoun