Helen Chadwick

Stephen Walker is Reader at The University of Sheffield. He is author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and is co-editor, with Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider and Renata Tyszczuk, of Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures (2009).

• List of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements ixPreface xiIntegration of Sources xvIntroduction: New negotiations 1Part One: the creative process and the creative persona1: the Creative Self2: the Creative Process and ‘Total Pattern’Part Two: experience, architecture and identity3: Body and Self4: ‘Multi-Stability’ and Viewing PositionPart Three: artifice and nature5: the Grotto and Architectural Conceit6: Architecture, the Divinities and the Authority of Science7: ‘Viral Architecture’ and the Rapprochement of Art and SciencePart Four: theory and practice8: Geometry, ‘Stereonomy’ and Surface9: the Role of MakingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Chadwick's innovations still startle, and Stephen Walker discusses brilliantly the processes of thinking and making that brought them into being.' Marina Warner, writer and academic, University of Essex, UK 'Helen Chadwick's personal archive has now been skilfully explored for the first time by Stephen Walker in this very welcome book.' Mark Haworth-Booth, Honorary Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, UK 'Helen Chadwick's work has found in the linguistic elegance, intellectual probity and theoretical acumen of Stephen Walker the security it so richly deserves.' Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Monash University, Australia