Critical architecture / edited by Jane Rendell ... [et al.].

Includes index.

Introduction : critical architecture : between criticism and design / Jane Rendell -- Introduction : criticism/negation/action / Mark Dorrian -- Criticality and operativity / Andrew Leach -- Unfinished business : the historical project after Manfredo Taluri / Teresa Stoppani -- Architecture as critical knowledge / David Cunningham -- Passing through deconstruction : architecture and the project of autonomy / Andrew Benjamin -- A critical position for architecture / Hilde Heynen -- Militant architecture : destabilising architecture's disciplinarity / Daniel A. Barber -- Architecture's critical context : the athens activist experiment / Maria Theodorou -- Criticism in/and/of crisis : the Australian context / Naomi Stead -- Introduction : architecture-writing / Jane Rendell -- The drowning method : on giving an account in practice-based research / Rolf Hughes -- The poetics of urban inscription : from metaphorical cognition to counter-representation / Laura Ruggeri -- Critical action and active criticism / Paul Shepheard -- Film as spatial critique / Patrick Keiller -- Architectural history, friendship and filmed conversations / Igea Troiani -- Image, text, architecture : the presence that 'WAS HERE' / Robin Wilson -- Fluttering butterflies, a dusty road, and a muddy stone : criticality in distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004) / Katja Grillner -- Memoirs : it will have happened already / Sharon Kivland -- Site-writing : enigma and embellishment / Jane Rendell -- Introduction : criticism by design / Jonathan Hill -- Centuries of ambiguity : sublime and beautiful weather at the Farnsworth House / Jonathan Hill -- Immediate architecture / Philippe Rahm -- Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen / Igor Marjanovic -- Out of the salon - with Natalie Barney towards a critically queer architecture / Katarina Bonnevier -- Writing about things and the doing of them / Ben Nicholson -- Quilting Jakarta / Stephen Cairns -- Where is the project? : cedric price on architectural action / Tim Anstey -- The fall : the allegorical architectural project as a critical method / Penelope Haralambidou -- On drawing forth, designs and ideas / Victoria Watson -- Introduction : the cultural context of critical architecture / Murray Fraser -- 'I mean to be critical, but ...' / Kim Dovey -- Critical post-critical : problems of effect, experience and immersion / Charles Rice -- A critical architectural icon and its contextual argumentation / Elisabeth Tostrup -- Three scenarios for a critical architecture of desert mobility / Gini Lee -- The responsive city / Ana Betancour -- China as a global site : in a critical geography of design / Jianfei Zhu -- Critical practice / Sarah Wigglesworth -- Architecture for an 'active edge' : the gateway, Derby / Steve McAdam and Fluid -- Neuland : disenchanted utopias for tel aviv / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Ganit Mayslits Kassif and Udi Kassif -- Beyond Koolhaas / Murray Fraser.