Highly self-conscious, the architectural radicalism of this era revealed the anxieties caused by the discipline’s awareness of its indeterminate identity in a transformed world. For architectural practice, the question of architecture’s socio-political efficacy in the light of its complicity with capital came to the fore and the discipline was forced to examine the margins of its own disciplinary protocols. While some forms of radical practice celebrated architecture’s integration in a larger cultural milieu, others responded with a retreat to an investigation of formalism. A shared understanding among these varied radical practices was that a new modus operandi for the discipline could only be created if traditions were questioned, destabilised, undermined or even d-estroyed.