Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. How To Write About Buildings? / Andrew Saint -- 2. Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page / Anne Hultzsch -- 3. Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism / Anthony Vidler -- 4. Homely Affinities / Barbara Penner -- 5. On Regeneration / Ben Campkin -- 6. Fresh Reactions to St Paul's Cathedral / Brian Stater -- 7. Photographs and Buildings (mainly) / Briony Fer -- 8. Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion / David Dunster -- 9. Carte Blanche? / Davide Deriu -- 10. Buildings: A Reader's Guide / Eleanor Young -- 11. City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory / Griselda Pollock -- 12. Most Modern Material Of Them All ... / Hilde Heynen -- 13. `Things that People Cannot Anticipate': Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre / Iain Borden -- 14. `Truth, Love, Life': Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk / Irena Zantovska Murray -- 15. Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics / Jan Birksted -- 16. During Breakfast / Jane Rendell -- 17. [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire / Jean-Louis Cohen -- 18. Words and Buildings / Jeremy Melvin -- 19. Slow Hard Look / Jeremy Till -- 20. Topography, Biography and Architecture / Joe Kerr -- 21. Of Character and Concrete: The Historian's Material / John Macarthur -- 22. Spectres of Marx in City X / Jonathan Charley -- 23. History by Design / Jonathan Hill -- 24. Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens's London / Kester Rattenbury -- 25. On `Sachlichkeit': Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter / Laurent Stalder -- 26. Double Vision / Mark Swenarton -- 27. Modernism / Mary Mcleod -- 28. Yes, And We Have No Dentists / Michael Edwards -- 29. Reyner Banham's Hat / Murray Fraser -- 30. Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies / Peg Rawes -- 31. Objects / Penny Sparke -- 32. Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912--1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett / Sir Peter Hall -- 33. Things Ungrand / Sarah Wigglesworth -- 34. `Minor' Spaces in Officers' Bungalows of Colonial Bengal / Tania Sengupta -- 35. Memoirs of Adrian / Thomas Weaver -- 36. All That Glitters / Tom Dyckhoff -- 37. Response to Words and Buildings / Tony Fretton -- 38. Material Culture: `Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans / Victoria Perry -- 39. Mr Mumford's Neighbourhood / William Menking -- 40. Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism / Yat Ming Loo.