Building Critique: Architecture and Its Discontents Hatje Cantz Matthew Day

Matthew Day

Ioana Nemeș is recognised as one of the most remarkable figures of the new generation of Romanian contemporary artists

Edited by Janneke Wesseling and featuring contributions from several artists (including Jeroen Boomgaard

Editor: Hannah Matthews

Don't Just Tell Them

Building Critique: Architecture and Its Discontents Hatje Cantz Matthew DayCriticism has fallen into crisis, and today's critical practice mistrusts its own tools a development that also applies to critique in architecture. For a major part of the twentieth century, critique played an important part in what was considered 'modern' architecture. The canon of modern architecture considered itself dedicated to both progress and social critique. As an antithesis to this, the 1960s introduced a rereading of modern architecture