ABSTRACT
The debate generated by the ‘Critical Architecture’ conference calls for an expanded
and reconfigured notion of poetics that can account for hybrid forms of inscription
where the materiality of writing is understood in the broader sense of ‘leaving a mark’,
as an all-surface, all-terrain, spatialised writing that extends far beyond the limits of the
page, as suggested by its etymology.1 Such poetics should reassess the importance of
the metaphorical and productive imagination in the continuum of theory and practice.
