ABSTRACT
For many modern historians and theoreticians of architecture – as well as some of architecture’s notable practitioners – the seminal discussion of the links between architecture and Surrealism begins in a 1978 edition of Architectural Design edited by Dalibor Vesely and titled, aptly, Architecture and Surrealism. 1 The edition was important in its anticipation of the significance of Surrealism for architecture rather than its analysis of significant examples of this relationship. 2 Vesely’s essay was critical in its clarification of Surrealism as an intellectual movement and theoretical construct rather than a stylistic movement – an observation not necessarily original but crucial in bringing any discussion of the movement into a discipline often distracted by the manifestations of style.
