List of figures ................................................ ix
Notes on contributors ......................................... xiv
Acknowledgements ............................................. xvii
Opening ......................................................... 1
Marc J. Neveu and Negin Djavaherian
PART I. Invoking the gods ....................................... 3
1 The Reading Chamber .......................................... 5
Robert Kirkbride
2 The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger,
and the death of architecture ............................... 16
Karsten Harries
3 Reading what is written between the lines: the esoteric
dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow ... 33
Paul Emmons
4 On virtue and Thomas Jefferson .............................. 47
Indra Kagis McEwen
INTERLUDE A ................................................. 61
The Architect's Fall
Santiago de Orduiia
PART II. Worldmaking ........................................... 65
5 Made in usage: architecture in Furetiere's Dictionnaire
universel ................................................... 67
Caroline Dionne
6 Beyond expression ........................................... 79
Lily Chi
7 On water and other fluids: a bloody account of urban
circulation ................................................. 94
Louise Pelletier
8 Earth or world? Aerial image and the prosthetic
imagination ................................................ 106
Lawrence Bird
INTERLUDE B ................................................ 121
The door of theory
Marco Frascari
PART III. Flesh / Eros ........................................ 123
9 Tough love: a study of the architecture of Pezo von
Ellrichshausen ............................................. 125
David Leatherbarrow
10 Flesh of stone: buildings, statues, entangled bodies ....... 138
Tracey Eve Winton
11 Genius as Eros ............................................. 150
Lian Chikako Chang
12 The tactile legacy of Alvar Aalto and its relevance to
contemporary practice ...................................... 166
Kenneth Frampton
INTERLUDE С ................................................ 181
Sigmund Freud or the dark foiesl room revisited
Natalija Subotincic
PART IV. Fusion of horizons ................................... 193
13 Voices of tranquillity: silence in art and architecture .... 195
Juhani Pallasmaa
14 An architectural creation myth borrowed from the
phenomenology of music ..................................... 205
Stephen Parcell
15 Modus operandi of an architectus doli: architectural
cunning in the comic plays of Plautus ...................... 218
Lisa Landrum
16 Towards an ecology of the Palladian villa .................. 228
Graham Livesey
INTERLUDE D ................................................ 241
Transformative power of architecture
Steven Holl
PART V. After the crisis ...................................... 245
17 Juan O'Gorman and the genesis and overcoming of
functionalism in Mexican modern architecture ............... 247
Juan Manuel Heredia
18 Architecture or acceleration: position as opposition ....... 262
Anne Bordeleau
19 Building upon love in an age of innovation ................. 272
Peter Olshavsky
20 Content and craft: what do we do when we do the history
of architecture? ........................................... 283
David Theodore
INTERLUDE E ................................................ 293
Two poems 2000-2011
Ricardo L. Castro
Index ......................................................... 298
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