The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism : Martin Pawley Collected Writings

Foreword 10(3) Norman Foster Introduction 13(11) David Jenkins The Time House 1968 24(11) Looking for a sound 1969 35(5) Meeting Buckminster Fuller 1970 40(5) A new kind of message in a bottle 1975 45(3) My lovely student life 1975 48(11) We shall not bulldoze Westminster Abbey: Archigram and the retreat from technology 1976 59(11) Thoughts on the design of houses and banknotes 1978 70(2) This England---coming home 1980 72(2) What does vernacular really mean? 1981 74(2) The defence of modern architecture 1983 76(9) Sex, violence and design 1983 85(2) Self-build workstations: a partial history 1983 87(3) Norman Foster 6.0, 6.0, 6.0 1984 90(5) Building revisits: Coventry Cathedral 1984 95(4) Building revisits: Hunstanton School 1984 99(7) The most important building of the twentieth century 1984 106(3) Heavy stuff this symbolism 1984 109(4) Beyond messing about in boats 1984 113(4) Office design in Eternia 1985 117(2) Quinlan Terry: beyond the tantrums of modernism 1985 119(4) Plucky Jim 1985 123(5) Doubts about Lloyd's 1986 128(6) Two triumphs of twisted wire 1986 134(6) Dan Dare: an extremely small step for mankind 1986 140(3) Welcome to the House of Fun 1986 143(4) A winter school's tale 1987 147(2) Objects of our time: the Piccadilly Line train 1987 149(5) Tower blocks and tourist castles 1987 154(4) Technology transfer 1987 158(15) The secret life of the engineers 1989 173(6) Life in the urban war zone 1989 179(7) Lost arks of the air 1989 186(3) Dymaxion: the car that never flew 1989 189(4) Is ecology all hot air? 1990 193(5) A precedent for the Prince 1990 198(10) The footmen of Alexandra Road 1990 208(3) The best lecture I ever gave 1990 211(4) In pursuit of the ultimate driving machine 1990 215(4) Exogenous shock 1990 219(7) Where the big sheds are 1990 226(3) Notes on the meaning of trivial things 1991 229(4) The design origins of royal train syndrome 1991 233(5) High-tech architecture: history versus the parasites 1991 238(9) The cost of the new culture of cities 1991 247(3) Henry Ford and the biospherans 1991 250(3) What London learned from Las Vegas 1991 253(4) What's in a name? 1991 257(3) Stansted and the triumph of big sheds 1991 260(8) And you thought your car was good for nothing 1992 268(3) Nigel Coates: from nihilist to planner 1992 271(4) A full and Frank talk 1992 275(5) The case for uncreative architecture 1992 280(3) Lunch with Leon Krier 1992 283(5) Zaha escapes the pull of gravity 1993 288(4) Tales of the obsolescent 1993 292(3) Invasion of the body snatchers 1995 295(2) Invasion of the vibrators 1996 297(2) Frank Lloyd Wright fights for his life 1996 299(2) The rise of the engineer 1996 301(3) After postmodernism, terrorism 1996 304(3) Meeting the future everywhere 1997 307(2) From here to modernity 1997 309(2) Seat pocket aliens 1997 311(2) The myth of monumentality 1997 313(5) So long recycling, here comes secondary use 1997 318(2) A night to remember 1998 320(2) Terminal architecture 1998 322(8) The strange death of architectural criticism 1998 330(2) When air conditioning meets its match 1999 332(2) A brace of fins du siecles 1999 334(2) The new life of Albert Speer 2000 336(2) Traffic congestion and confusion 2000 338(2) America: it's 24--7 at mission critical 2001 340(2) Ordering buildings like hamburgers 2001 342(2) Rocket science at the AA 2001 344(2) Shooting at statues 2001 346(2) Hong Kong's space shuffle 2001 348(2) Tall buildings: the end of a civilisation 2001 350(2) How to get famous by not building anything 2002 352(4) Battleships hold the key to the future of tall buildings 2002 356(2) Saved by the intelligent toilet 2002 358(2) Why prefabrication fails 2002 360(2) Technological jewels in the crown 2003 362(2) The defining moment of modernism 2003 364(2) Porsche 911, a genetically modified machine 2003 366(6) Nonsuch Metropolitan University summer school 2003 372(2) Return of the phone box 2003 374(2) Not-so-smart intelligent buildings 2003 376(4) Henry Ford and the limits of prefabrication 2003 380(2) The end of an interface 2003 382(2) It's an ill wind... 2004 384(2) The nine ages of transport 2004 386(2) The myth of the urban future 2004 388(2) Flying antiques 2004 390(2) Heavy bottles for a picnic 2004 392(2) The strange world of luxury watches 2004 394(2) The young dig in their heels 2005 396(2) How total urbanism will come to grief 2005 398(2) The answer to an historical conundrum 2005 400(2) The biggest house sale in history 2005 402(4) Notes 406(7) Sources 413(6) Bibliography 419(22) Index 441(7) Credits 448