sundry writings fictions pedagogies 1976-2026

Roger Connah © 2026

ARKKIPEDIA a Compendium
(Azieli School of Architecture & Urbanism 2009-2019)

THE RAVISHING OF TOM O MERTON
(A Play in Two Acts 2023)

INFINITE MAPS
(Archi 1000 2017)

GOLDEN NOTEBOOK 5.44m
(Video 2003/2018)

TAKEFIVE 36.43m
(Video 1993)

27 MINUTE LIES 27m
(Video 1994)

DRIVE Nineteen Empty Spaces 41m
(Video Emptiness and Architecture – Venice/Finland 1993)

LIVE MAPPING 12.30m
(Lecture Recording Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism 2009)

CRITICAL STEEL AND THE PERFECT WAVE
(From Visions to the Visionary Steel Images 2006)

THE SCHOOL OF EXILE Timo Penttilä: For and Against Theory
(Datutop Tampere 2015)

AFTER-IDEOLOGY The Art of Swerved Poetry
(Synteesi Helsinki 1985/ Harvard Design Journal 2004)

THE SEVEN FAMOUS RAINCOATS & MOYGASHEL
(Four Exhibitions 1984)

THE BOOK ABOUT TO BE READ
(Mishima Girl 1 – 2026)

BEAR’S SLEEP IS BEAR’S WORK
(An Anti-Mémoire on Reima Pietilä 2025)

FOLLOW THE ECSTASY
(Vertigo Poetry 2020)

POEMS TO THE SECOND BREAST
(Vertigo Poetry 2013)

AERO
(Film Outline on Eero Saarinen 1992)

HOMO DIAGRAMMATICS
(A Personal History of Diagramming 2026)

THE TEREZIN WITHIN a Counter-Institute
(A Work in Progress & Parallel Destinies – Prague/Terezin 2002)

THE LAND THAT IS NOT
(Film Synopsis – Helsinki 1997)

INNER TENNIS
(An Introduction to the introduction – Azrieli School 2009)

MISUNDERSTAND ME CORRECTLY!
(A Few Good Years – Carleton University 2011)

40/40
(40 Young Finnish Architects 2001)

SEE BEACHTOWN AND DIE!
(Architectural Scripts, Narratives & Fictions – Galveston 2008)

BEACHTOWN & The Abuses of Disorder
(Cite, Rice Journal 2008)

SOMETIMES AND ALWAYS with Mixed Feelings
(Untimely Notes on a Culture of Silence 1998/2004)

S, M, X, XL – LETTERS TO AN ICON
(File under who cares! 2019)

THE ANTI-LIBRARY OR IDEATH
(Pamphlets & Architecture – Veranda Gurgaon 2019)

THE COMPETITION Predictive Architecture
(Architecture in the Pop-Digital Age 2025)

INSIGHT
(Learning Multiple Sneezing – Warszawa 1979/1984)

ARCHITECTURE SET FREE Gonzo Theory
(The Place of Theory – Silpakorn 2013)

BECKETT’S HAPPY DAYS
(Passion in the Impatience 1984)

SAVAGE TITILLATION OR WIDE OPEN ON THE FENCE
(James Vertigo – No Longer Rundom 2010)

PULP ARCHITECTURE GOES YALE
(The Brendan Gill Lecture Yale 2003)

THE MISSING MEMO
(Studio Workshop Kaapelitehdas 1993)

THE NON-DESTINATION ARCHITECT The Existential Self
(Enigmas of Arrival 2023)

THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET
(Were I Less Fragile, I’d be a Skateboarder – Innsbruck 2023)

TRANS ARCHITECTURES Stars in Their Eyes
(Five Books on Architecture and a Film 2010)

ADVENTURE WITH RUDY THE RACCOON
(Kristopher Taillefer Arch 1000 Azrieli School 2018)

WHAT’S NEXT GUANGZHOU
(Decoding Street Fashion in China Studio 2019)

THE DIASPORA OF GUINNESS
(The Scroope Prologue 2020)

THE DIASPORA OF GUINNESS Urban Songs
(Vertigo Poetry 2020)

THE HOUSE AS COUCH
(Or What is Mr F doing under the Staircase 2010)

THE COVER OF WRITING ARCHITECTURE
(Decoding the Image 1989/2014)

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL ARCHITECTURE
(An Epic Poem on Philosophy and Architecture 1998)

DESCHOOLING ARCHITECTURE Lifting the Curtain on the Brain
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 8 2013)

ARCHITECTURE DEGREE ZERO
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 1 2009)

CALLIGRAPHISMS an Exhibition
(Mapping Someone Else’s Brain – India 2019)

HOCKNEY’S WINDOW
(From the series Life is a Beach – Venice 2016)

I AM ARCHITECTURE The Education of an Architect
(Student Narrative and Confessions 2006)

A SCHOOL WITHOUT ROGER
(Biographies 2026)

ARCHITECTURE IS A DIVE
(From the series Life is a Beach – Venice 2019)

THE INFORMATION ISN’T FROZEN, YOU ARE!
(The Phoney Island of the Mind vol 1 2013)

MALADIES OF THE ARCHITECTURAL SOUL
(The Phoney Island of the Mind vol 2 2014)

THE CLOSING OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MIND
(The Phoney Island of the Mind vol 3 2015)

SUNBATHING IN MANITOBA WITH WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
(The Phoney Island of the Mind vol 4 2016)

LET US CONSIDER OURSELVES DUMB The Crisis Papers
(The Phoney Island of the Mind vol 5 2017)

AALTO EGO Commedia dell’aalto
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 4 2011)

PULP ARCHITECTURE A New Movement-in-Progress
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 2 2009)

A HOUSE FOR DE KOONING’S FRIEND
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 3 2009)

IDEATH By Headless
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 10 2013)

LIFE AFTER ARCHITECTURE Several Pretexts & Obscene Short-Cuts
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 7 2012)

HEADLESS A Listening Intelligence
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 9 2013)

THE IRRESPONSIBLE SELF On Writing Architecture
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 5 2011)

THE BRAUTIGAN A Sufi in Texas
(The Vertigo Anti-Library vol 6 2011)

THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
(Notebook & Collection India Mondo 2018)

THE CITY & THE CITY
(Zoom Studio Catalogue Ottawa 2021)

EXCEPTIONAL / EXCEPTIONABLE SPACE
(Indifference and Exception Conference Papers 2015)

WHO CARES (WHO) WINS!
(Fred Linney Explains the White House Prize 2009)

IT SHOULD BE FORBIDDEN
(Long Aphorisms on Contemporary Architecture 2008/2021)

MAY THE BEST MEME WIN
(Rough Guide to Graduate School Carleton University 2010)

THE ANALECTA MEME 2
(What to Do with Architecture Ottawa 2011)

OTTAWA YOU’RE SO VANIER!
(Hyperbolic Urbanism Sketchbook 2016)

GIRAFFE AT THE BAR
(Rebel Planning Fragments for a City in Waiting 2008)

THIRD CITY
(Sketch for an Urban Laboratory 2015)

NOTHING TO TEACH (DISRUPTING DISRUPTION)
(Nexus & The Dice of Design NID India 1987/2024)

THE CAREFULLY FOLDED HAM SANDWICH OR TRAMEZZINI
(Marco Frascari and Library 2013)

PICTURES OF THE TRAMEZZINI
(Layers of Carefully Folded Ham 2013)

REVENGE ON THE LAWN
(White House Redux 2008)

PESONA OBSCURA
(Soothing Memos Against the Pietilä Archive 2014)

CHTO DELAT
(What Is To Be Done 2013)

THE LALA BALADI PERFUME
(Sketch for an Essay on Lala Baladi 2008)

THE LITTLE WHITE SCHOOLBOOK
(Don’t Go So Fast You Will Crash into Roland Barths 2010)

MY MOTHER AS SAMUEL BECKETT
(A Memoire on Bessie M Connah 2022)

EL GAUCHO
(The Masked Architectural Hero 2008)

THE PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHER IS DISAPPOINTED
(Transformative Architecture 2008)

TADEUS KANTOR’S TOMB LXXII– 35 -7
(Rakowicki 2017)

SHADOWLANDS
(The Collected Works of Vesa Honkonen So Far 2006)

CLOSING TIME IN NAGOYA RAILWAY STATION
(The Poetics of Cartoon Departure with Vesa Honkonen 2005)

FILE UNDER BUDDIHSM AND ARCHITECTURE
(Architectures of Thought 2025)

ZEN INKLINGS
(A Dialogue with Satish Gupta 2019)

FRANK HERON & THE ROCKET GIRLS
(N Alice Challinor 2008)

I <3 FINNISH ARCHITECTURE
(The Prejudice Project 2014)

ANTISANKARI PIETILÄ
(No Guru No Method No Teacher 2023)

THE INDEX CARD HOUSE
(The Red Barn Son Oslo 2016)

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE
(Reima Pietilä Centenary 2023)

WHO’S AFRAID OF FASHION?
(Notebook on Azzedin Alaïa 1997/2023)

MENTAL MAPS
(Frank Heron’s Biography – Complete with Missing Parts 2010)

FINLAND
(Modern Architecture in History 2006)

LITERAL MORPHOLOGY
(Centro Dipoli Otaniemi 1998)