Oppositions was an architectural journal produced by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies

The Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies is a non-profit Architecture Studio & think-tank located in Manhattan, New York, USA.-IAUS :...

 from 1973 to 1984. Many of its articles contributed to architectural theory and many of its contributors became distinguished members in the architectural field.

Contributors included: Diana Agrest

Diana Agrest

Diana Agrest is an Argentinian/American architect.She co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York, and is director of the Diana Agrest Architect Studio....

, Stanford Anderson, Giorgio Ciucci, Stuart Cohen, Alan Colquhoun, Francesco Dal Co, Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...

, William Ellis, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton , is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York....

, Mario Gandelsonas, Giorgio Grassi

Giorgio Grassi

Giorgio Grassi , is one of Italy's most important architects. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to...

, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...

, Léon Krier

Léon Krier

Léon Krier is an architect, architectural theorist and urban planner. From the late 1970s onwards Krier has been one of the most influential neo-traditional architects and planners...

, Mary McLeod, Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo

José Rafael Moneo Vallés is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid...

, Joan Ockman, Martin Pawley, Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.-Early life:...

, Colin Rowe

Colin Rowe

Colin Rowe , was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teacher; acknowledged as a major intellectual influence on world architecture and urbanism in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, particularly in the fields of city planning,...

, Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia...

, Jorge Silvetti

Machado and Silvetti Associates

Machado and Silvetti Associates is an architecture and urban design firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Incorporated in 1985, the firm's principals Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti have been in association since 1974...

, Ignasi de Solà-Morales

Ignasi de Solà-Morales

Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió was a Catalan architect, historian and philosopher.He was professor of Architectural Composition at the School of Architecture in Barcelona, and also taught at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Turin, and Cambridge.Among his most notable architectural works are...

, Manfredo Tafuri

Manfredo Tafuri

Manfredo Tafuri , an Italian architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic, was arguably the world's most important architectural historian of the past fifty years...

, Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Born of French and Swiss parentage, he works and lives in New York and Paris. He studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969...

, Anthony Vidler, and Hajime Yatsuka.