After the Manifesto

Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? "After the Manifesto" brings together architects and scholars to revisit the past, present and future of the manifesto. In what ways have manifestos transformed the field over the last 50 years, and in what ways has the manifesto itself been transformed by new modes of communication? New writing by Ruben Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker and Mark Wigley is interwoven with key manifesto documents from the last 100 years, by Antonio Sant'Elia, Archigram, Constant, Le Corbusier, Yona Friedman, Hans Hollein, Kazimir Malevich, Kisho Kurokawa, Alexander Rodchenko, Superstudio, Aldo van Eyck, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, Lebbeus Woods, Bernard Tschumi and Tristan Tzara, among others.