ABSTRACT
Modern Architecture’.3 Politics of Friendship is an historical examination into the work-
ings of political collaborations, an examination of how things happen through powerful
friendships based on likeness. Colomina’s essay complements Derrida’s text. In it, she
contends that there appears to be a shift away from documenting what to writing
about how; as she defines it, ‘the practice of architecture’ or ‘architecture as collabora-
tion’.4 She writes:
Architects themselves have started to tell us private stories about their des-
perate attempts to get jobs, about their pathological experiences with
clients [. . .]. And we pay more attention than when they were trying to
dictate to us what their work meant.
