6 SPACE OF MONTAGE Movement, Assemblage, and Appropriation in Koolhaas’ Kunsthal Movement is a translation of space.1 Gilles Deleuze Typically, when I asked him [Rem Koolhaas] about…
12 THE TACTILE LEGACY OF ALVAR AALTO AND ITS RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE Kenneth Frampton Among the pioneers of the Modern Movement Alvar Aalto remains the…
16 TOWARDS AN ECOLOGY OF THE PALLADIAN VILLA Graham Livesey … our house would emerge as permeated from every direction by streams of energy… . Its image of…
11 GENIUS AS EROS Lian Chikako Chang Opening One’s first reaction to the book is entirely favorable. The type is beautiful and the book handles well. It is…
9 TOUGH LOVE A study of the architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen David Leatherbarrow Love that has yielded to the right order can no longer be understood as…
17 JUAN O’GORMAN AND THE GENESIS AND OVERCOMING OF FUNCTIONALISM IN MEXICAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE Juan Manuel Heredia Under the title La Génesis y Superación del Funcionalismo en la…
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…