ABSTRACT
This chapter is about architectural criticism, journal publishing, and architectural dis-
course in the Australian context. It takes as its object of enquiry the production, publi-
cation, and reception of the author’s own essay, ‘Three Complaints about Architectural
Criticism’, commissioned for the commercial journal Architecture Australia in 2003.1
This essay can be seen as a justification and an apology, an argument and a polemic,
about the role and significance of architectural criticism for architectural practice in
Australia. That context, with all of its constraints and particularities, provides a specific
case from which some larger conclusions can perhaps be drawn.
