In recent international literature addressing the history of twentieth-century archi-tectural theory, the year 1968 is often seen as a decisive moment, giving rise to a “new” architectural theory. From that moment onwards, less emphasis was placed on the aesthetics of architecture, and more on its critical potential. Increasingly, and also from that moment onwards, architectural theory became an academic discipline inhabited by full-time scholars rather than by practicing architects. Yet, according to some authors, this intensification and assumed relevance of theory was short-lived, leading to an unstable situation and resulting in an end-of-theory atmosphere around the turn of the millennium. Different responses were for-mulated to deal with this crisis: some architects wanted to counter the dominant abstract reasoning by a pragmatic approach (New Dutch School), critics posited a “postcritical” stage, others contradicted the end-of-theory thesis, and a historio-graphical effort turned to mapping and historicizing the life course of architectural theory in the recent past.