Tectonic acts of desire and doubt This instalment in the Architecture Words series collects together for the first time a number of key essays by the New York based architect and critic Mark Rakatansky. Following its title the book is broken down into three sections: Tectonic Acts Desires and Doubts. In each Rakatansky covers a series of subjects from Louis Kahns relationship to the brick to a more general polemic involving identity and politics in contemporary architecture and in a writerly voice that varies from the third person narrative of the scholarly essay to the transcript of an email exchange with fellow academic Sarah Whiting discussing two recent books by architect Greg Lynn. 00