Critical Architecture (Critiques: Critical Studies in Architectural Humaities)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustration credits......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Introduction: Critical architecture: between criticism and design......Page 22
Criticism/Negation/Action......Page 30
Introduction: Criticism/Negation/Action......Page 32
Criticality and Operativity......Page 35
Unfinished Business: The historical project after Manfredo Tafuri......Page 43
Architecture as Critical Knowledge......Page 52
Passing Through Deconstruction: Architecture and the project of autonomy......Page 61
A Critical Position for Architecture?......Page 69
Militant Architecture Destabilising architecture’s disciplinarity......Page 78
Architecture’s Critical Context: The Athens activist experiment......Page 88
Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian context......Page 97
Architecture-Writing......Page 106
Introduction: Architecture-Writing......Page 108
The DROWNING METHOD: On giving an account in practice-based research......Page 113
The Poetics of Urban Inscription: From metaphorical cognition to counter-representation......Page 124
Critical Action and Active Criticism......Page 133
Film as Spatial Critique......Page 136
Architectural History, Friendship and Filmed Conversations......Page 145
Image, Text, Architecture: The presence that ‘WAS HERE’......Page 150
Fluttering Butterflies, a Dusty Road, and a Muddy Stone: Criticality in distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004)......Page 156
Memoirs: It will have happened already......Page 164
Site-Writing: Enigma and embellishment......Page 171
Criticism by Design......Page 184
Introduction: Criticism by design......Page 186
Centuries of Ambiguity: Sublime and beautiful weather at the Farnsworth House......Page 191
Immediate Architecture......Page 203
Alvin Boyarsky’s Delicatessen......Page 211
Out of the Salon: With Natalie Barney towards a critically queer architecture......Page 221
Writing About Things and the Doing of Them......Page 227
Quilting Jakarta......Page 236
Where is the Project?: Cedric Price on architectural action......Page 241
The Fall: The allegorical architectural project as a critical method......Page 246
On Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas......Page 258
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture......Page 268
Introduction: The cultural context of critical architecture......Page 270
‘I Mean to be Critical, But …’......Page 273
Critical Post-Critical: Problems of effect, experience and immersion......Page 282
A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation......Page 290
Three Scenarios for a Critical Architecture of Desert Mobility......Page 300
The Responsive City......Page 309
China as a Global Site: In a critical geography of design......Page 322
Critical Practice......Page 330
Architecture for an ‘Active Edge’: The Gateway, Derby......Page 339
Neuland: Disenchanted utopias for Tel Aviv......Page 346
Beyond Koolhaas......Page 353
Index......Page 361