 It is also proposed that, in architecture, critical historiography involves a strategic choice to approach the position of architecture within the given Symbolic order.This is demonstrated in the way Kenneth Frampton and Manfredo Tafuri associated Marxism with the Frankfurt School's critical theory.A critique of critical historiography cites the risk of judging the realities of the past by the yardstick of what is true in the present so that it becomes illusory and can obscure identity.