CONTENTS
Illustration credits viii
List of contributors X
Acknowledger .ents xviii
Introduction: Critical Architecture : Between Criticism and Design
Jane Rendell
Criticism/Negation/ Action 9
Introduction: Criticism/Negation/Action
Mark Dornan 11
Criticality and Operativity
Andrew Leach 14
Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri
Teresa Stoppani 22
Architecture as Critical Knowledge
David Cunningham 31
Passing through Deconstruction: Architecture and the Project of Autonomy
Andrew Benjamin 40
A Critical Position for Architecture
Hilde Heynen 48
Militant Architecture: Destabilising Architecture's Disciplinarity
Daniel A. Barber 57
Architecture's Critical Context: The Athens Activist Experiment
Maria Theodorou 67
Criticism inland/of Crisis: The Australian Context
Naomi Stead 76
Architecture-Writing
Introduction: Architecture-Writing 87
Jane Rendell
The DROWNING METHOD : On Giving an Account in Practice-Based Research
Rolf Hughes 92
The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From Metaphorical Cognition to Counter­ Representation
Laura Ruggeri 103
Critica l Action and Active Criticism
PauiShepheard 112
Film as Spatial Critique 115
Patrick Keiller
Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations 124
lgea Troiani
Image, Text, Architecture: The Presence that 'WAS HERE' 129
Robin Wilson
Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in Distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004) 135
Katja Grillner
Memoirs: It wil l have happened already
Sharon Kivland 143
Site-Writing: Enigma and Embellishment
Jane Rendell 150
Criticism by Design 163
Introduction: Criticism by Design
Jonathan Hill 165
Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and Beautiful Weather at the Farnsworth House
Jonathan Hill 170
Immediate Architecture
Philippe Rahm 182
Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen 190
Igor Marjanovi6
Out of the Salon -with Natalie Barney towards a Critically Queer Architecture 200
Katarina Bonnevier
Writing about Things and the Doing of Them 206
Ben Nicholson
Quilting Jakarta
Stephen Cairns 215
Where is the Project? Cedric Price on Architectural Action 220
Tim Anstey
The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method 225
Penelope Haralambidou
Victoria Watson 237
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture 247
Introduction: The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture
Murray Fraser 249
'I Mean to be Critical, But.
Kim Dovey 252
Critical Post-Critical: Problems of Effect, Experience and Immersion
Charles Rice 261
A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation
Elisabeth Tostrup 269
Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility
Gini Lee 279
The Responsive City
Ana Betancour 288
China as a Global Site: In a Critical Geography of Design
Jianfei Zhu 301
Critical Practice
Sarah Wigglesworth
Architecture for an 'Active Edge': The Gateway, Derby 309
Steve McAdam, Fluid 318
Neu/and: Disenchanted Utopias for Tel Aviv
Alana Nitzan-Shiftan, Ganit Mays/its Kassif and Udi Kassif
Beyond Koolhaas 325
Murray Fraser 332
Index 340