K. Michael Hays
Author of Architecture Theory since 1968
About the Author
K. Michael Hays is adjunct curator of architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Works by K. Michael Hays
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book) (2008) — Editor — 57 copies
Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (1992) 21 copies
A Chain of Events: Modernist Architecture on the Outer Cape, Marcel Breuer to Charles Jencks 3 copies
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Oppositions Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture, 1973-1984 by K. Michael Hays
"Oppositions" was the nearly square journal of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), the non-academic NYC institution founded by Peter Eisenman that also presented lectures, published books, printed a newsletter, hosted exhibitions, functioned as a school, and was directly responsible for at least one building. Massimo Vignelli’s design of the journal, from its orange cover and font selection to the mainly two-column layout of text and images, was integral to the journal show more and institution’s identity, so the reader replicates the originals in the few-dozen contributions from two-dozen issues that comprise it. It is a rewarding collection that includes some of the most important — and frustrating, admittedly — writings on architectural history and theory in its time. show less
It's now available as an ebook on the MITpress portal http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/architectures-desire
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