CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
Epilogue: Today in the Beginning 1
Part 1: Architecture in an Information Age 5
1. 21st Century Trajectories 7
2. Modernity's Legacy in a New Millennium 19
3. A Postmodern Profession, circa 1991 31
4. Formal or Phenomenological: a feud between forms of information 39
5. Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the Sao Pedro 52
6. Mies van der Rohe in Chicago 67
7. Language Games 80
8. Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace 90
Interlude: The Information Reformation, or This Killed That 101
Part 2: Architecture in Eras of Meaning 109
9. 16 June 1904: Ulysses and the Uncanny 111
10. Marx, Meaning, and Matter 122
11. Exchange and Evolution 134
12. In What Style: epistemes and monsters 146
13. The Precis and the Paternity of Perception 161
14. De Sade versus Descartes: competing conceptions of language 175
15. The Tense of Abstract Nouns 187
16. Vitruvian Cycles 1: representations against space 202
17. Vitruvian Cycles 2: physical language and shared experience 211
Prologue: Babel... 223
Further Reading 234
Image Credits 239
Index 241