The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook - Rosie Parnell and Rachel Sara

Tolerance in the Peer Review of Interdisciplinary Research in Architectural Journal Publishing

“…18 As a consequence, design review criticism in the British architectural press for instance was "frequently a playground for the display of intellectual superiority, arrogance and occasional bullying". 19 But in the late 1980s, around the time of the emergence of feminist critique in architectural theory, the established masculinist image of the architecture critic who is a militant "fighter" or "critique militante" engaged in a battle over architectural value began to be questioned. 20 According to Stead in "Three Complaints about Architectural Criticism", "there is a pervasive belief abroad that criticism is only ever rigorous and true if it is negative".…”