Architecture can no longer be limited to the art of building; it must also invent the politics of dismantling them. Throughout these pages, Jill Stoner addresses the construction of a minor architecture, a way of operating (in) the space that surrounds us. Faced with the ruins of a landscape filled with disused buildings and shopping malls, shaped by heroic architects, she proposes that we acquire the sharp eye of a hacker, journalist, or handyman. That is, to become minor architects. Minor architectures, mobilized from the underbelly of power structures, will sometimes emerge within other architectures—living or obsolete. They will sometimes become elusive and uncapturable before prying eyes. They will unabashedly celebrate their fragility and contingency. They will emerge, in any case, from resistance and the collective desire to transform the reality that surrounds them. Drawing on 20th-century literature, film, and thought, Stoner traces the vectors, structures, and elements of a new grammar of space. She begins by dismantling the four great myths that underpin the hegemonic thinking of Architecture—the interior-exterior dichotomy, the autonomy of the object, the heroism of the architect, and the culture-nature dichotomy—to propose new possibilities for the construction and destruction of space. These pages construct an intense and comprehensive manual from which to approach the "detritus" of built elements in an urban landscape brimming with opportunities, and a complex language with which to respond to the major forms of Architecture.