“To become a critical practice, documentation must explicitly reveal what it does to a building. it must lay bare its conventions for public scrutiny, be self-assured enough to change its criteria when they fall short of the environments under study, and remain attentive how the choice made bring those entities into new situations (temporal, political, cultural, aesthetic, etc).” p. VI

“Both `forwardness´ and `backwardness´ are necessary to documentation. The first step we take in documenting must strive towards this double movement necessary to any critical historiography.” p- VI

“But taken together these two methods can bring buildings to that counterfactual temporality from whence our built environment might situate critical reflection.” p VII

Future Anterior, Echoing: How to Situate the New