List of Illustrations

Notes on contributors

Illustration credits

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

From chamber to transformer: epistemological challenges and tendencies in the intersection of architectural histories and critical theories

Iain Borden

Jane Rendell

Tendency 1 Theory as Objects of Study

Walter Benjamin, mimesis and the dreamworld of photography

Neil Leach

Historical errors and black tropes

Darell W. Fields

Space House: the psyche of building

Beatriz Colomina

The fragility of structure, the weight of interpretation: some anomalies in the life and opinions of Eisenman and Derrida

Clive R. Knights

Tendency 2 Theorised Interpretation

A fitting fetish: the interiors of the Maison de Verre

Sarah Wigglesworth

Sublimation (el Pedregal)

Helen Thomas

Beyond the empire of the signs

Murray Fraser

Joe Kerr

Dark lights, contagious space

Henry Urbach

Colonialism, Orientalism and the Canon

Zeynep Celik

Women and space in a Renaissance Italian City

Diane Ghirardo

Tendency 3 Theorising historical methodology

Heterotopia deserta: Las Vegas and other Spaces

Sarah Chaplin

Thick edge: architectural boundaries in the postmodern metropolis

Iain Borden

``Serpentine allurements:'' disorderly bodies/disorderly spaces

Jane Rendell

The construction of identity: Virginia Woolf's city

Barbara Penner

Thick Time: architecture and the traces of time

Jeremy Till

The use of fiction to reinterpret architectural and urban space

Katherine Shonfield

Index