“Between The ‘is’ and The ‘is Not’”—On Theory, Criticism and The Radical

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Pattabi Raman and Richard Coyne, ‘The Production of Architectural Criticism', Architectural Theory Review, 5, no. 1 (2000), p. 87. Note that pagination in references throughout this essay refer to the original published versions. 2. Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Julie Willis, ‘Conditions, Connections and Change: Reviewing Australian Architectural Theory 1880–2000',Architectural Theory Review, 8, no. 2 (2003), pp. 221–231. 3. Kaji-O'Grady and Willis, ‘Conditions, Connections and Change', p. 229. 4. See Anna Rubbo, ‘Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin: A Creative Partnership', Architectural Theory Review, 1, no. 1 (1996), pp. 78–94. 5. Stephen Loo and Scott Drake, ‘Introduction: Reviewing Architectural Theory', Architectural Theory Review, 8, no. 2 (2003), p. vi. 6. Loo and Drake ‘Introduction: Reviewing Architectural Theory', p. vi. 7. Linda Nochlin, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' ARTnews (January 1971), pp.22–39, 67–71; re-published in Linda Nochlin, Women, Art and Power, New York: Harper and Rowe, 1988, pp. 145–178. Page references here refer to the reprinted version. 8. Nochlin, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' p. 147. 9. Nochlin, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' p. 153. 10. Kaji-O'Grady and Willis, “Conditions, Connections and Change”, p. 221 11. Kaji-O'Grady and Willis, ‘Conditions, Connections and Change', p. 226 12. Raman and Coyne, “Production of Architectural Criticism”, p. 86. 13. See George Baird, ‘‘‘Criticality and Its Discontents''', Harvard Design Magazine, p.21 (Fall/Winter 2004), 16–21; and Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, ‘Notes Around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism', Perspecta 33 (2002), pp. 72–77. 14. Another key exception is Bruno Latour, ‘Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern', Critical Enquiry, 30 (Winter 2004), pp. 225–248. 15. Cathy Lang Ho and William Menking (eds), ‘On Criticism', The Architect's Newspaper (16 November 2005). 16. George Dodds, ‘Editorial: On Criticism in Architecture: An Invitation to Practice', Journal of Architectural Education 62, no. 3, (2009), p.3. 17. Alexandra Lange, ‘Why Nicolai Ouroussoff is Not Good Enough', Design Observer. Observatory section. Posted 18 February 2010. http://observatory.design observer.com/feature/why-nicolai-ouroussoff-is-not-good-enough/12708. Consulted 20 March 2011. 18. Nancy Levinson, ‘Critical Beats'. Design Observer. Places Section. Posted 3 June 2010. http://places. designobserver.com/entry. html?entry=12948. Consulted 20 March 2011. 19. Alexandra Lange, ‘Whatever Happened to Architecture Critique?'. Design Observer, Observatory section, Posted 1 July 2010. http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html? entry=22808, consulted 20 March 2011. 20. Stead and Stickells, Special Issue: Writing Architecture. The symposium was supported by the ATCH Research Group, School of Architecture, the University of Queensland, and held at the Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane, 15 & 16 August 2009. It was followed in 2010 by a subsequent event, Writing Architecture II: A Symposium on Innovations in the Textual and Visual Critique of Buildings, held at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art and the State Library of Queensland, 22–23 July 2010, with financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. The proceedings of the second conference will be forthcoming as a book edited by Naomi Stead and published by Brisbane's Institute for Modern Art, in early 2012. 21. Editoriale Domus, ‘Critical Futures # 1', January 2011, http://www.domusweb.it/en/video/-critical-futures-1/, consulted 1 April 2011. 22. Editoriale Domus, ‘Critical Futures # 1', consulted 1 April 2011. 23. Raman and Coyne, “Production of Architectural Criticism”, p. 86. 24. Raman and Coyne, ‘The Production of Architectural Criticism', p. 85.