Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches

Helene Frichot is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Naomi Stead is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at Monash University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations Prelude 1. Prelude - the ways in which we write, Jane Rendell (UCL, UK) Writing Architectures 2. Waking Ideas From Their Sleep: An introduction to ficto-critical writing in and of architecture, Helene Frichot (KTH, Sweden) and Naomi Stead (Monash University, Australia) 3. From Site to Situation: Cutting up as fictocritical composition, Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University, Australia) 4. Construction (and connection), Katrina Schlunke (University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia) 5. Incompossible Constructions of an Island Paradise, Helene Frichot (KTH, Sweden) 6. Archaeologies of Exile on Trikeri Island: Listening to stones and speculating on prison matters, Elke Krasny and Phoebe Giannisi 7. In which Robert Smithson visits Christchurch: Ficto-criticism and the field trip, Jacky Bowring (Lincoln University, New Zealand) 8. Hiroshima: Notes of the expanded field, Kim Roberts (Independent Scholar, Australia) 9. Writing Walking: Ficto-critical routes through eighteenth-century London, Emma Cheatle (University of Sheffield, UK) 10. The Indelible Traces of Your Footsteps, Mireille Roddier (University of Michigan, USA) 11. Sydney Letters: A to E, Naomi Stead (Monash University, Australia) and Katrina Schlunke (University of Tasmania and Sydney, Australia) 12. Outrage on Calle Alcala, Scott Colman (Rice University, USA) and Lars Lerup (Rice Univeristy and University of California at Berkeley, USA) 13. Architecture as Entourage: The politics of objects, Michael Young (The Cooper Union, USA) 14. The Architect Who Couldn't Write, Keith Mitnick (University of Michigan, USA) 15. Return to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after The Marriage Plot, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (University of Queensland, Australia) 16. The Bannister, Katrina Simon (RMIT University, Australia) 17. Nice House, Woodland Lakes, Andrew Steen (University of Tasmania, Australia) 18. The Door Left Ajar: On Dissident Waiting and Collective Fiction, Sepideh Karami (University of Edinburgh, UK) Postlude 19. Postlude - Ficto-criticism after critique, Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia) Index