introduction 7 Jane Alison the spirit of experimentation 11 Marie-Ange Brayer non-standard orders: 'nsa codes'17 Frederic Migayrou New babylon 34 Guy Ernest Debord38 Constant Nieuwenhuys 40 Yona Friedman 46 new urban habitat50 lonel Schein 54 David Georges Emmerich 56 Alison & Peter Smithson 58 Pascal Hausermann 62 Chaneac 64 David Greene (Archigram) 68 organic city 70 Andre Bloc 74 Ricardo Porro 76 Antti Lovag78 Vittorio Giorgini81 Pierre Szekely82 Arthur Quarmby 84 inflatable city 86 Peter Cook & Ron Herron (Archigram)90 Coop Himmelb(l)au93 Haus-Rucker-Co. 98 Graham Stevens 102 rnegastructure 104 Hans Hollein 108 Eilfried Hum & Giinther Domenig 109 Chaneac 110 Walter Pichler 112 the oblique city 114 Architecture Principe 118 The metabolists 126 Kenzo Tange 130 Kiyonori Kikutake 133 Kisho Kurokawa136 Arata Isozaki 138 radical architecture in Italy 140 Archizoom Associati 144 Superstudio 146 metropolis 152 Rem Koolhaas 156 concept city 160 Gianni Pettena 164 James Wines & SITE 166 Gordon Matta-Clark 169 Diller + Scofidio170 Didier Fiuza Faustina171 deconstruction 172 Bernard Tschumi 176 Coop Himmelb(l)au 179 Peter Eisenman 181 Daniel Libeskind 182 Morphosis 184 Eric Owen Moss 185 Michele Saee 186 Asymptote 187 Lebbeus Woods 189 Zaha Hadid 192 machine architecture 194 Neil Denari 194 Jones, Partners: Architecture 196 intervention 198 NATO 202 Nigel Coates 204 Will Alsop 208 experimental living 210 Future Systems 214 Eisaku Ushida & Kathryn Findlay 218 Shigeru Ban 222 C.J.L1M + Studio 8 Architects 224 non-standard architecture NOX 230 deCOi 232 KOL/MAC Studio 234 EZCT Architecture & Design Research 236 Objectile 237 Peripheriques 238 Dagmar Richter Studio 240 OCEAN NORTH 241 contemporary process 242 OMA 246 Makoto Sei Watanabe 250 Foreign Office Architects 252 MVRDV 258 R & Sie.. 262 Jakob & MacFarlane 266 Diller + Scofidio 268 UN Studio 271 architects and works 273 credits 334 acknowledgements 335