Editorial
Helen Castle 4
Introduction
Anything Goes
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi 6
Theory in Architecture:
XIII to XX Century
Francesco Proto 13
A Short History of Western Architecture from Vitruvius to Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Proto 14
Critic's Focus junya.ishigami+associates
Joseph Gnma 16
Evaporating Theory
An Interview with Yves Michaud
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi 18
Critic's Focus
muf architecture/art
Claes Sbrstedt 22
Twenty Years After (Deconstructivism)
An Interview with Bernard Tschumi
Michele Costanzo 24
Critic's Focus
Nabito Arquitectura
ManuelGausa 30
Digital Morphogenesis
Neil Leach 32
Critic's Focus
Atelier Kempe Thill
Hans Ibelings 38
Meeting the New Boss:
After the Death of Theory
Christopher Hight 40
Critic's Focus
Josep Lluis Mateo/MAP Architects
Krunoslav Ivanisin 46
The Life of Space
Derrick de Kerckhove and
Antonio Tursi 48
Critic's Focus
[ecosistema urbano]
Roman Rutkowski and
Lukasz Wojciechowski 54
Architecture as a Dissident Practice
An Interview with DiLler
Scofidio + Renfro Olympia Kazi 56

Critic's Focus
Supersudaca
Carlos Sant'Ana 60
Club Cinemetrics:
New Post-Perspectival Design
Methodologies
Brian McGrath, Hsueh, Cheng
Leun, Paul CHU Hoi Shan,
Jose De Jesus Zamora and
Victoria Marshall 62
Critic's Focus
Stalker/ON
Peter Lang 68
That Old Thing Called Flexibility
An Interview with Robert
Venturi and Denise Scot': Brown
Francesco Proto 70
Critic's Focus
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Bill Menking 76
Spaces of Freedom
Emiliano Gandolfi 78
'To Go Beyond or Not to Be'
Unsolicited Architecture
An Interview with Ole Bouman
Luca Guido 82
Critic's Focus MAD
Jiang Jun 86
Cross the River by Touching the
Stones: Chinese Architecture
and Political Economy in the
Reform Era: 1978-2008
Tao Zhu 88
Critic's Focus
Exit Ltd
Shumon Basar 94
Some Conclusions
Liberating Ourselves from the
Tyranny of Architecture
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi 96
A Not So Well-Reasoned
Bibliography
Francesco Proto 98
Interior Eye
WORK Architecture Company's
Diane von Furstenberg Studio,
New York
Jayne Merkel 104+
Building Profile
Vassall Road Housing and
Healthcare Centre,
Brixton, London
David Littlefield 108+
Practice Profile
51% Studios
Howard Watson 112+
Spiller's Bits
What Are You Looking At?
Neil Spiller 118+
Unit Factor
Algorithmic Design
Maria Bessa 120+
Yeang's Eco-Files
Nanoenergy
Ken Yeang 124+
McLean's Nuggets
Will McLean 126+
Userscape
Investigating Culture
Through the Senses
Valentina Croci 128+
Site Lines
Baroque Parameters
Andrew Saunders 132+