anti-architecture and deconstruction
nikos salingaros thoroughly eviscerates the nonsense that passes for deconstructionist architectural "theory" and goes on to explain why it won't just go away and die. with considerable precision and wit he characterises the deconstructionist meme as "the derrida virus" and shows how it propagates within society and results in the cult that is the contemporary architectural establishment
as obligate intracellular parasites viruses are extremely hard to deal with. the hope of the world lies in immunising the population by injecting the culture with the humane architecture of christopher alexander and "the nature of order"