French Theory in the United States’ Academic Periodicals between Seventies and Nineties: influence, legitimacy, manipulation. The role of 'Oppositions' and 'Assemblage'

Is here considered the influence of the French Theory on the architectural periodicals “Oppositions” and “Assemblage” during the period between Seventies and Nineties; the wide presence of philosophical theories, without being a guarantor for the discipline, is a sign of the increasing consciousness of its own possibilities. From the critic of the Modern Movement and of its legacy to a form of promotion of new studies on the nature of language based on the structural method, French Theory was theoretical set of ideas that have informed architectural debate.