CONTENTS
Introduction: Accept, Resist, or Inflect? Architecture and Contemporary Capitalism William S. Saunders vii
1. A Scientific Autobiography, 1982-2004: Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokohama, the Globe Alejandro Zaera-Polo 1
2. Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting 22
3. Starck Speaks: Politics, Pleasure, and Play Philippe starck 34
4. P.S./P.C: On "Starck Speaks" K. Michael Hays 49
5. No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture ... and Its Limitations Roemer van Toorn 54
6. No More Tabula Rasa: Progressive Architectural Practices in England Lucy Bullivant 75
7. Not Unlike Life Itself: Landscape Strategy Now James Corner 89
8. On Not Eeing Governed Dave Hickey 94
9. Stocktaking 2004: Questions about the Present and Future of Design Stan Allen, Hal Foster, and Kenneth Frampton 101
10. "Criticality" and Its Discontents George Baird 136
11. Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism Reinhoid Martin 150
12. Design Will Save the World! On Bruce Mau's 162
Massive Change and the Mediatization of Culture Robert Le /it and Evonne Levy
13. The Muscis Are Not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture Jorge Silvetti 176
Contributors 199