Critiques

Introduction Part 1: Politics of Cities 1. The Freedom of the City 2. The Politics of the West Bank Wall: Symbolic Violence and Spaciocide 3. Politics and Housing in 1950s French Algiers 4. A Space of the State: Beijing 1949-59 5. Representing the State: Symbolism and Ideology in Doxiadis's Plan of Islamabad 6. The Pleasures of Driving: Experiencing Cities from the Automobile 7. Campagna Romana: The Formation of the Oltrecitt  Part 2: Politics of Makers 8. Architectural Theory in the Service of the Crown: The Foundation of the Acad©mie Royale DâArchitecture 9. The Flute and the House: Doing the Architecture of Making 10. Ethical Dilemmas and Difficult Collaborations: An Architectâs View Inside an Award-Winning but Troubling Project 11. Unsettling Design: Working Between Cultures in Remote Western Australia 12. The Beehive: A Difficult Collaboration 13. Edited by Alison Smithson: The Censored History of the âTeam 10 Family' 14. Towards a New Understanding of Architecture of Addition: The Unrealised Extensions of Whitney Museum of American Art Part 3: Politics of Seeing 15. Watching Palaces: Ruskin and the Representation of Venice 16. Ambiguous Objects: Modernism, Brutalism and the Politics of the Picturesque 17. Souvenirs of the Architectural Tourist: Ahmedabad Framed 18. Auschwitz State Museum: Collective Memory and the Contested Landscape 19. Displacing Topographies: Making and Reading Istanbul Guidebooks 20. Down and Out in London: Photography and the Politics of Representing Life in the Elephant, 1948-2005 21. The Early American Maps of Iowa and their Politics 22. Making by Stealing: the Politics of Helen Chadwickâs âCreative and Manipulative Theftâ 23. The Art of the Plausible: Some Characteristics of Architectural Design