Before Pevsner and his colleagues penned their editorial in the Review and with quick pace since the 1960s, architectural theory has provided a philosophical gloss for architectural criticism design practices and education, for better or worse. Consequently, much of what counts as scholarship on architecture has come to resemble a history of philosophical ideas, while contingencies of practice have provided theorists with more than one philosophical dilemma and bugbear to contend with. There has been continued critical reappraisal of the discipline's terms,