Introduction : critical architecture : between criticism and design / Introduction : criticism/negation/action / Criticality and operativity / Unfinished business : the historical project after Manfredo Taluri / Architecture as critical knowledge / Passing through deconstruction : architecture and the project of autonomy / A critical position for architecture / Militant architecture : destabilising architecture's disciplinarity / Architecture's critical context : the athens activist experiment / Criticism in/and/of crisis : the Australian context / Introduction : architecture-writing / The drowning method : on giving an account in practice-based research / The poetics of urban inscription : from metaphorical cognition to counter-representation / Critical action and active criticism / Film as spatial critique / Architectural history, friendship and filmed conversations / Image, text, architecture : the presence that 'WAS HERE' / Fluttering butterflies, a dusty road, and a muddy stone : criticality in distraction (Haga Park, Stockholm, 2004) / Memoirs : it will have happened already / Site-writing : enigma and embellishment / Introduction : criticism by design / Centuries of ambiguity : sublime and beautiful weather at the Farnsworth House / Immediate architecture / Alvin Boyarsky's Delicatessen / Out of the salon - with Natalie Barney towards a critically queer architecture / Writing about things and the doing of them

Quilting Jakarta / Where is the project? : cedric price on architectural action / The fall : the allegorical architectural project as a critical method / On drawing forth, designs and ideas / Introduction : the cultural context of critical architecture / 'I mean to be critical, but ...' / Critical post-critical : problems of effect, experience and immersion / A critical architectural icon and its contextual argumentation / Three scenarios for a critical architecture of desert mobility / The responsive city / China as a global site : in a critical geography of design / Critical practice / Architecture for an 'active edge' : the gateway, Derby / Neuland : disenchanted utopias for tel aviv / Beyond Koolhaas