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