This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.

About the Author
Amanda Reeser Lawrence received her PhD in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University. She is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Lawrence is founding coeditor of the award-winning journal, PRAXIS. She is the author of James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013).

Ana Miljacki is Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches history, theory, and design. She holds a PhD in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University. Her work focuses on the relationship between politics and the products and circumstances of architectural labor. She is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 (Routledge, 2017).