CONTENTS
Foreword Christopher Hawthorne ix
Preface Clare Jacobsoi xi
Introduction Lebbeus Woods xiii
2007
Outsider Architecture 2
Criticism 3
Taking a Position 5
Noblesse Oblige 6
What Is Architecture? 7
The Corporate Model 9
Starchitects Defended 10
2008
The New and the Ugly 14
Haunted 15
Lost and Found 16
The Reality of Theory 18
Slums: One Idea 20
Common Ground 22
The Proto-Urban Condition 23
Integrity 25
Raimund Abraham: Musikerhaus 26
Dumb Boxes 27
Line 28
O, Ordos 29
Tower Space 30
Junk 32
Dead Words 33
American Dreams 35
Stonehouse 36
Cities Without Names 37
Pagespace 38
The Politics of Abstraction 39
Zeroes and Ones 41
Bad Faith 42
Bad Faith 2 44
Solohouse @ 20 46
City of Fire 48
City of Water 50
2009
Slow Manifesto 54
Type Casting 55
Sotirios Kotoulas: Seeing Space 57
Architecture School 101 58
Metastructure 60
Real Time 61
Architecture School 201 62
Worlds Apart 64
Up and Away Notebook 98-3 65
Notebook 97-3 67
Architecture School 301 68
Zaha Hadid's Drawings 1 70
Within the Walls 72
Ends and Beginnings 73
Architecture and Resistance 74
Locus of Memory 77
Architecture School 401 78
AS401: Buffalo Analog 80
When the World Was Old 83
Architecture of Energy 84
Doom Time 89
Total Design 93
Fluid Space 95
Political Machines 97
Meta-institutes 98
Ars Brevis, Vita Longa 99
Ars Brevis: Addendum 101
Notebook 01-3 (The Last) 101
Utopia? 103
Constant Vision 104
The Light, the Dark 106
Moss Is More 108
The Question of Space 109
Libeskind's Machines 111
Big Tops 113
Storm Watch 114
2010
On the Malecon 118
Boulez in Space 120
Earthquake (Again)! 120
Aestheticizing Violence 123
Bruegel's Presence 124
From New Atlantis II 125
Authenticity 126
The Edge 128
High Houses 129
ANTI: Journey to Architecture 130
Slums of New York 131
Terrible Beauty 133
Darkness Ascending 133
As It Is: Interview with Lebbeus Woods 1 134
As It Is: Interview with Lebbeus Woods 2 137
Just Change 140
Walls of Change 141
Einstein Tomb @ 30 144
The Cube 146
Terrible Beauty 2- The Ineffable 147
Eight Diagrams of the Future 148
The Experimental 150
By Hand 152
Gesamtkunstwerk 153
Building Landscapes 154
Terrible Beauty 3:1 Am Become Death 155
Gehry's Skyscraper 155
Mies Is More 156
A Moment of Silence 157
Thorn Mayne's Mind 158
Da Vinci's Blobs 160
Slipstreaming 161
Killer Buildings 163
2011
The Dreams that Stuff Is Made Of 166
Inventing Discovery 168
Ode to Joy 169
A Space of Light 170
A Lone Shaper of Worlds 172
Rethinking Roche 173
Mystery of the Normal 174
Magic Marker 176
Zvi Hecker's Sense of Place 177
Slums: To the Stars 178
Drawings, Stories 2, 179
Drawings, Stories 3 181
Ai Weiwei Is Released! 183
Drawings, Stories 4 183
RIEA: The Backstory 184
Steven Holl's Horizontal Skyscraper 186
Wild Buildings 188
Blooms(birth)day Bash 189
Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) 190
Real Paper Architecture 191
September 11, 2001-2011 193
Exuberant Space 195
Corridor of Recollection 196
Return of the Manifesto 197
War and Architecture: The Sarajevo Window 198
War and Architecture: Three Principles 199
2012
Origins 204
Kiss Me Deadly 206
Yendo's Exprosthesis 207
Why I Became an Architect, Part 1 209
Why I Became an Architect, Part 2 210
Zaha Hadid's Aquatic Center 211
Krasojevic Unbound 212
Interview with Lebbeus Woods—"The Ineffable" 214
Saarinen's Last Experiment 217
The Next Revolution? 218
Theoharis David's Built Ideas 220
Lower Manhattan Revisited 221
Celebrating Death 224
Beyond Memory 225
Science to Art 227
Measuring Light 228
Michelangelo's War 229
Oyler Wu Collaborative: Screenplay 231
Inevitable Architecture 232
Goodbye (Sort Of) 233
Afterword Aleksandra Wagner 235
Notes 237
Contributors 239
Illustration Credits 242