CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
PREFACE xi
SOURCES OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ESSAYS XV
Introduction 1
1.Bentham's Panopticon: An Architectural Perpetration 6
2 Politics of Style: Dublin Pro-Cathedral in the Greek Revival 29
3 An American Utopian Schoolhouse Design 47
4 Note on Sullivan and the Rarefaction of Bodily Beauty 57
5 De Chirico's Pathos of Lost Antiquity 69
6 Textual Life of the Living-Machine 77
7 Reflections in Onyx on Mies van der Rohe 95
8 Post Tenebras Lux: Speculations on Ronchamp no
9 Kahn: The Anxious Classicist 122
10 Crystalline Form, Worringer, and the Minimalism of
Tony Smith 143
11 Form Behind Concept: The Bechers' Imaging of
Industrial Architecture 162
12 Classical Sass: Notes on Soft Postmodernism 170
13 Tired Tropes: Cathedral versus Bicycle Shed; "Duck" versus
"Decorated Shed" 184
NOTES 222
INDEX 291