Forty ways to think about architecture : architectural history and theory today / edited by Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Barbara Penner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adrian Forty, future imperfect : inaugural professorial lecture, delivered at UCL in December 2000 -- How to write about buildings? / Andrew Saint -- Pevsner vs Colomina : word and image on the page / Anne Hultzsch -- Smooth and rough : tactile brutalism / Anthony Vidler -- Homely affinities / Barbara Penner -- On regeneration / Ben Campkin -- Fresh reactions to St Paul's Cathedral / Brian Stater -- Photographs and buildings (mainly) / Briony Fer -- Stirling's voice : a detailed suggestion / David Dunster -- Carte blanche? / Davide Deriu -- Buildings : a reader's guide / Eleanor Young -- The city and the event : disturbing, forgetting and escaping memory / Griselda Pollock -- The most modern material of them all ... / Hilde Heynen -- 'Things that people cannot anticipate' : skateboarding at the Southbank Centre / Iain Borden -- 'Truth, love, life' : building with language in Prague Castle under Masaryk / Irena Žantovská Murray -- Le Corbusier : lies, damned lies and statistics / Jan Birksted -- During breakfast / Jane Rendell -- [American] objects of [Soviet] desire / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Words and buildings / Jeremy Melvin -- Slow hard look / Jeremy Till -- Topography, biography and architecture / Joe Kerr -- Of character and concrete : the historian's material / John Macarthur -- Spectres of Marx in City X / Jonathan Charley -- History by design / Jonathan Hill -- Angel Place : a way in to Dickens's London / Kester Rattenbury -- On 'Sachlichkeit' : some additional remarks on an Anglo-German encounter / Laurent Stalder -- Double vision / Mark Swenarton -- Modernism / Mary McLeod -- Yes, and we have no dentists / Michael Edwards -- Reyner Banham's hat / Murray Fraser -- Situated architectural historical ecologies / Peg Rawes -- Objects / Penny Sparke -- Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912-1981 : a lost vision for The Bartlett / Sir Peter Hall -- Things ungrand / Sarah Wigglesworth -- 'Minor' spaces in Officers' bungalows of colonial Bengal / Tania Sengupta -- Memoirs of Adrian / Thomas Weaver -- All that glitters / Tom Dyckhoff -- A response to Words and buildings / Tony Fretton -- Material culture : 'Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans / Victoria Perry -- Mr Mumford's neighbourhood / William Menking -- Banyan tree and migrant cities : some provisional thoughts for a strategic postcolonial cosmopolitanism / Yat Ming Loo.

"Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today. This collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. The entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives"--Back cover.