Forty Ways to Think about Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today (Paperback)

Acknowledgements 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 i¿½ANTOVSKÁ 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