| Author | Article | Pages |
| Howard Colvin | What we mean by amateur | 4–6 |
| Maurice Howard | “His Lordship was the chiefest architect”: patrons as builders in 16th-century England | 7–13 |
| Gile Worsley | The Gentleman-Professional | 14–20 |
| Edward McParland | Sir Thomas Hewett and the New Junta for Architecture | 21–26 |
| David Watkin | Was the amateur architect a British phenomenon? | 27–32 |
| Charles Hind | The amateur architect and his library | 33–39 |
| John Harris | The importance of the amateur in innovation | 40–43 |
| Iain Gordon Brown | Judges of Architectory: The Clerks of Penicuik as amateurs | 44–52 |
| Appendix | Lists of amateur architects | 53–56 |
