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CONTENTS<br/>Acknowledgements 7 <br/>Introduction 8<br/>Adrian Forty, Future Imperfect: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at UCL in December 2000 17<br/>1.ANDREW SAINT, How To Write About Buildings? 33<br/>2.ANNE HULTZSCH, Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page 36<br/>3.ANTHONY VIDLER, Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism 43<br/>4.BARBARA PENNER, Homely Affinities 48<br/>5.BEN CAMPKIN, On Regeneration 54<br/>6.BRIAN STATER, Fresh Reactions to St Paul's Cathedral 60<br/>7.BRIONY FER, Photographs and Buildings (mainly) 65<br/>8.DAVID DUNSTER, Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion 72<br/>9.DAVIDE DERIU, Carte Blanche' 77<br/>10.ELEANOR YOUNG, Buildings: A Reader's Guide 83<br/>11.GRISELDA POLLOCK, The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory 89<br/>12.HILDE HEY1MEN, The Most Modern Materia! Of Them All ... 95<br/>13.IAIN BORDEN, Things that People Cannot Anticipate': Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre 100<br/>14.IRENA ZANTOVSKA MURRAY, 'Truth, Love, Life': Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk 106<br/>15.JAN BIRKSTED, Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 112<br/>16.JANE RENDELL, During Breakfast 119<br/>17.JEAN-LOUIS COHEN, [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire 127<br/>18.JEREMY MELVIN, Words and Buildings 134<br/>19.JEREMY TILL, Slow Hard Look 140<br/>20.JOE KERR, Topography, Biography and Architecture 144<br/>21.JOHN MACARTHUR, Of Character and Concrete: The Historian's Material 150<br/>22.JONATHAN CHARLEY, Spectres of Marx in City X 155<br/>23.JONATHAN HILL, History by Design 163<br/>24.KESTER RATTENBURY, Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens's London 168<br/>25.LAURENT STALDER, On 'Sachlichkeif: Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter 174<br/>26.MARK SWENARTON, Double Vision 180<br/>27.MARY MCLEOD, Modernism 185<br/>28.MICHAEL EDWARDS, Yes, And We Have No Dentists 193<br/>29.MURRAY FRASER, Reyner Banham's Hat 197<br/>30.PEG RAWES, Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies 204<br/>31.PENNY SPARKE, Objects 210<br/>32.SIR PETER HALL, Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912-1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett 214<br/>33.SARAH WIGGLESWORTH, Things Ungrand 220<br/>34.TANIA SENGUPTA, 'Minor' Spaces in Officers' Bungalows of Colonial Bengal 224<br/>35.THOMAS WEAVER, Memoii s of Adrian 235<br/>36.TOM DYCKHOFF, All That Glitters 239<br/>37.TONY FRETTON, A Response to Words and Buildings 243<br/>38.VICTORIA PERRY, Material Culture: 'Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans 249<br/>39.WILLIAM MENKING, Mr Mumford's Neighbourhood 254<br/>40.YAT MING LOO, Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 259<br/>Author Biographies 266<br/>Index 275<br/>Photo credits 280 |