7 ON WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS A bloody account of urban circulation Louise Pelletier In 1628, English physician William Harvey (1578–1657) introduced one of the most celebrated contributions…
14 AN ARCHITECTURAL CREATION MYTH BORROWED FROM THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MUSIC Stephen Parcell Sound versus musical sound One of the many books in the music library that illuminate…
Interlude D Transformative power of Architecture Steven Holl I believe in the social contract, therefore I teach. I believe the university is one of the last places…
8 EARTH OR WORLD? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination Lawrence Bird The image is one mode by which architecture appeals to us. The image has long been…
6 BEYOND EXPRESSION Lily Chi In the early 1990s, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was commissioned to design a plan for doubling the size of the city…
10 FLESH OF STONE Buildings, statues, entangled bodies Tracey Eve Winton Gods in Antiquity were bodily things. The Druids worshipped oaks; Egyptians worshipped animals; shapeless stones were venerated…