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This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors, cities and landscapes of the twentieth century are revealed. The book contains a diversity of voices from across modern art and architecture to bring into focus what is often overlooked in the histories of the modernist avant-garde. This collection examines the practices of writers, artists, architects, and urbanists with emphasis on a critique of the everyday world-view, offering alternative models of subjectivity, artistic effect, and the production of meanings in the built world.

Obituary of British surrealist painter and sculptor Leonora Carrington. Born in 1917, she was a rebellious painter who found her spiritual home in the enigmas of Mexico, and was also a prolific writer; she developed an illusionistic surrealism which was both autobiographical and occult.

Obituary of Russian-born artist and writer Toni del Renzio. Born in 1915, he was the last of the pre-War World War 2 members of the Surrealist group in England.

The destabilization of space was one of the means through which surrealist subversion challenged the architectural paradigm within which reason orders tangible reality. Space, after all, is defined through the architecture that contains it, as well as the architecture that is contained within it.

The terminological confusion in Michel Foucault's interpretation of Rene Magritte's account of the representational process is unraveled, and some aspects of Magritte's theories that may have been obscured by Foucault's interpretations are identified. The concept of the \"application of the mind\" and that of the authorial stamp seem to underpin Magritte's whole rationale.