Critical Architecture

Introduction: Critical Architecture: Between Criticism and Design Part 1: Criticism/Negation/Action Introduction 1. Criticality and Operativity 2. Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri 3. Architecture as Critical Knowledge 4. Passing through Deconstruction 5. Utopia, Critique, and Contemporary Discourse 6. Militant Architecture: Destabilising Architecture's Disciplinarity 7. Architecture's Critical Context: The Athens' Activist Experiment 8. Criticism in/and/of Crisis Part 2: Architecture-Writing Introduction 1. The Drowing Method: On Giving an Account in Practice-Based Research 2. The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From Metaphorical Cognition to Counter-Representation 3. Critical Action and Active Criticism 4. Film as Spatial Critique 5. Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations 6. Image, Text, Architecture: The Presence that 'Was Here' 7. Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in Distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004) 8. Memoirs: It will Have Already Happened 9. Site-Writing: Enigma and Embellishment Part 3: Criticism by Design Introduction 1. Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and Beautiful Weather at the Farnsworth House 2. Immediate Architecture 3. Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen 4. Out of the Salon - with Natalie Barney towards a Critically Queer Architecture 5. Writing about Things and the Doing of Them 6. Quilting Jakarta 7. Where is the Project? Cedric Price on Architectural Action 8. The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method 9. On Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas Part 4: Cultural Context Introduction 1. I Mean to be Critical, But... 2. Critical Post-Critical: Problems of Effect, Experience and Immersion 3. A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation 4. Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility 5. The Responsive City 6. China as a Global Site: In a Critical Geography of Design 7. Critical Practice 8. Architecture for an Active Edge: The Gateway, Derby 9. Neuland: Disenchanted Utopias for Tel Aviv 10. Beyond Koolhaas