ABSTRACT
To publish an anthology on critical architecture at this time means that it will be
received in the context of the recent debate about a post-critical architecture. Yet
debates about architectural positions are often short-lived, and the current one already
seems a little exhausted; a laissez-faire attitude seems to have descended upon it; or,
rather, the post-critical promotes the laissez-faire as an architectural position.1 There is
a need to escape this situation, to think outside of it.
