Table of Contents
Publisher's Note x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
1 Free Show 1
Just Looking
Hamas & Kibbutz 2
The Strand 24
St Paul's 27
London Bridge 30
Canary Wharf 32
The New River 35
Crystal Palace 38
Brighton 41
Tunbridge Wells 44
Portland 47
Vanbrugh in Dorset 50
Unfinished: Woodchester 53
Script 1 Jerry Building 61
2 Urbs and Burbs 71
The Quiet Pleasure of Getting Lost
Anti-urbanism's Ancestry 72
Zaragoza 82
Buenos Aires 84
Hansa 89
Durham 92
Bristol 95
Bkmingham 106
London Transport 112
Script 2 Joe Building 117
3 Bland Ahoy! 141
Power, Politics and Insipidity's Triumph
The Dismal Profession 142
Fuck E$lish $erit$ge 144
Amateur 147
Mammarial 150
The Absentee Landlord 158
Neo-Georgian 167
Postmodernism to Ghost-modernism 170
Script 3 Victoria Died in 19 01 and Is Still Alive Today 185
4 Vertical Sausaging Matrixes 209
Axialise an Iconic Art Hub
On the Brandwagon 210
The Curse of Bilbao 220
The Wheel Experience 226
Strategy Safari 229
Constructive Survival 232
Script 4 Surreal Film 241
5 There is No Wasteland 257
Barbed Wire's Allure Greenish Belt 258
Last Resort 260
Terminal 267
The Other Grove 270
Raw 272
Sheds: A-M 275
Script 5 Isle of Rust 280
6 Self-Portrait With Place 299
Forebears' Shades, Literal Haunts
Fatherland 300
Pint-Sized 306
Framed 312
A Boy's-eye View 316
First Love 320
First Shack 325
The Forest, My Forest 329
OnPompey 332
Oh God 338
Script 6 France: Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia 341
7 Dead, Mostly 359
Prodigious Lives
Zaha Hadid 360
Norman Foster 374
Ricardo Legorreta 378
Rodney Gordon 381
Ian Nairn 386
John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner 401
Five Architects 414
Index 419
Subscribers 437
A Note on the Typefaces 446
