PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Hilde Heynen in Context, by Lucía C. Pérez-MorenoSection 1. Architecture & Critical TheoryBackground NotesChapter 1. Worthy of Question: Heidegger’s Role in Architectural TheoryChapter 2. Functionalism and its ShadowChapter 3. Space as Receptor, Instrument or Stage : Notes on the Interaction between Spatial and Social ConstellationsChapter 4. Meaning and Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in ArchitectureSection 2. Critical Theory & ProjectsBackground NotesChapter 5. In New Babylon, One Cannot Dwell: On Dealing with Poetry and CommonplaceChapter 6. Scenes of Ambivalence : Concluding Remarks on Architectural Patterns of DisplacementChapter 7. Signs, Images and Life: Researching the Mimetical Mode of ArchitectureChapter 8. A Critical Position for Architecture?Section 3. Projects & Political EconomyBackground NotesChapter 9. “What Belongs to Architecture?” Avant-garde Ideas in the Modern MovementChapter 10. The Exodus MachineChapter 11. The Intertwinement of Modernism and Colonialism: A Theoretical PerspectiveChapter 12. Lutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal WorldSection 4. Political Economy & HousingBackground NotesChapter 13. The Irreducibility of DwellingChapter 14. Belgium and the Netherlands : Two Different Ways of Coping with the Housing Crisis 1945-1970Chapter 15. Continuity or Discontinuity? Narratives on Modern Architecture in East and West Germany during the Cold WarChapter 16. About the Displacement of HomeSection 5. Housing & Feminist TheoryBackground NotesChapter 17. Mimesis, Dwelling and Architecture : Adorno’s Relevance for a Feminist Theory of ArchitectureChapter 18. Places of the Everyday: Women Critics in ArchitectureChapter 19. Modernity and Domesticity: Tensions and ContradictionsChapter 20. Uncanny and In-Between: The Garage in Rural and Suburban Belgian FlandersChapter 21. Anticipating the Future: Three Lines of DevelopmentSection 6. Feminist Theory & ArchitectureBackground NotesChapter 22. ‘Matrix of Man.’ Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Neglected HistoriesChapter 23. Genius, Gender and Architecture: The Star System as Exemplified in the Pritzker PrizeChapter 24. Where Have all the Women Gone? Women’s Visibility in Architectural Culture in FlandersChapter 25. A Feminist in Disguise? Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Histories of Architecture and the EnvironmentChapter 26. Narrating Women Architects’ History: Paradigms, Dilemmas, and ChallengesCoda. The Displacement of Criticality , by Hilde HeynenList of FiguresList of Original Publications in Chronological OrderShort Curriculum of the AuthorsThree decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourseHilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives to architectural culture. This volume collects her most significant texts from three decades of intellectual work, centred on three feature concepts: mimesis, dwelling, and displacement. It offers readers incisive reflections on architects’ roles in shaping societies and the alliance between ideology, societal structures of injustice, political economy, housing and the built environment.Within a fierce post-critical debate among scholars who have begun to question the relevance of architectural theory to the discipline in the early twenty-first century, Heynen’s position remains constant throughout her writings in defence of architectural theory as a social and transformative practice. This collection is essential reading for new generations of architects and cultural theorists interested in modernity, gender and criticality.