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Jonathan Hill is Director of the MPhil/PhD by Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Galleries where he has had solo exhibitions include the Haus der Architektur, Graz, and Architektur-Galerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart. Jonathan is author of The Illegal Architect and editor of Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User and Architecture

• Introduction  1. The Role of the User  1.1 The Passive User  1.2 From the Reactive User to the Creative User  1.3 The Creative User  1.4 Conclusion  2. Montage After Shock  2.1 The Montage of Fragments  2.2 The Montage of Gaps  2.3 The Institute of Illegal Architects  2.4 Weather Architecture (Berlin 1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999)  2.5 White on White  2.6 Electromagnetic Weather  2.7 The Subject is Matter  2.8 Turning a Wall into a Window  2.9 Conclusion

'A book as important for its theoretical grounding as for its relevance to the future of the profession.' - Bobby Open, The Architectural Review'A stimulating and exciting book that is imaginative and thought provoking ... the importance of the book is that it is one of the few to challeneg orthodox ideas and practices in the architectural profession, and for this it deserves to be widely read.' - Environment and Planning B