Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 8 Adrian Forty, Future Imperfect: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at UCL in December 2000 17 1 ANDREW SAINT , How To Write About Buildings? 33 2 ANNE HULTZSCH, Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page 36 3 ANTHONY VIDLER , Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism 43 4 BARBARA PENNER , Homely Affi nities 48 5 BEN CAMPKIN , On Regeneration 54 6 BRIAN STATER , Fresh Reactions to St Paul's Cathedral 60 7 BRIONY FER, Photographs and Buildings (mainly) 65 8 DAVID DUNSTER , Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion 72 9 DAVIDE DERIU , Carte Blanche? 77 10 ELEANOR YOUNG, Buildings: A Reader's Guide 83 11 GRISELDA POLLOCK , The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory 89 12 HILDE HEYNEN , The Most Modern Material Of Them All . 95 13 IAIN BORDEN , 'Things that People Cannot Anticipate': Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre 100 14 IRENA ÂZANTOVSKÁ MURRAY , 'Truth, Love, Life': Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk 106 15 JAN BIRKSTED , Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 112 16 JANE RENDELL , During Breakfast 119 17 JEAN-LOUIS COHEN, [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire 127 18 JEREMY MELVIN , Words and Buildings 134 19 JEREMY TILL , Slow Hard Look 140 20 JOE KERR , Topography, Biography and Architecture 144 21 JOHN MACARTHUR , Of Character and Concrete: The Historian's Material 150 22 JONATHAN CHARLEY , Spectres of Marx in City X 155 23 JONATHAN HILL , History by Design 163 24 KESTER RATTENBURY, Angel Place: A Way in to Dickens's London 168 25 LAURENT STALDER , On 'Sachlichkeit': Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter 174 26 MARK SWENARTON , Double Vision 180 27 MARY MCLEOD , Modernism 185 28 MICHAEL EDWARDS , Yes, And We Have No Dentists 193 29 MURRAY FRASER , Reyner Banham's Hat 197 30 PEG RAWES , Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies 204 31 PENNY SPARKE, Objects 210 32 SIR PETER HALL , Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912-1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett 214 33 SARAH WIGGLESWORTH , Things Ungrand 220 34 TANIA SENGUPTA , 'Minor' Spaces in Officers' Bungalows of Colonial Bengal 224 35 THOMAS WEAVER , Memoirs of Adrian 235 36 TOM DYCKHOFF , All That Glitters 239 37 TONY FRETTON, A Response to Words and Buildings 243 38 VICTORIA PERRY , Material Culture: 'Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans 249 39 WILLIAM MENKING , Mr Mumford's Neighbourhood 254 40 YAT MING LOO , Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism 259 Author Biographies 266 Index 275 Photo credits 280.