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Introduction : The building's discursive building
1. The building
1.1. Elements : Empire of platforms / Penelope Dean : House NA, Tokyo / SOu Fujimoto Architects
In the thick of it / Gabriela García de Cortázar : Wolf house, San Pedro, Chile / Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos
Those unsightly windows / Francisco González de Canales : Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Galicia, Spain / Alvaro Siza Vieira
Biblio-theque / Costandis Kizis : Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Tokyo / Sou Fujimoto Architects
Landscape of knowledge / Rafi Segal : National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel / Rafi Segal
Response: Geometrico ordinaire / Peg Rawes
1.2 Wholes : Radical solitudes / Stan Allen : Castilla and León Museum of Contemporary Art, León, Spain / Mansilla + Tuñón Architects
Building primitive / Costandis Kizis : Truffle house, Costa da Morte, Spain / Ensamble Studio
̂ Building riddles / John McMorrough : EXPO 2000 Dutch Pavilion, Hannover, Germany / MVRDV
The super-urban house / Etien Santiago : Suburban American house, generic locations, USA / Generic architect
Having it all ways / Aaron White : Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, Wellesley, USA / Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Response: The question concerning wholes / Francisco González de Canales
1.3. Content : The overlook / Mark Campbell : The Overlook Hotel, Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, Stanley Kubrick & Roy Walker
"Out-of-focus impression": the uncertain typology of Louvre-Lens : Musée du Louvre-Les, Pas-de Calais, France / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, Tim Culbert + Celia Imry/Imry Culbert, and Catherine Mosbach
Positive objects / Sylvia Lavin : Danziger Studio, Los Angeles / Frank Gehry
Profoundly boring architecture / Bryan E. Norwood : Nasher Sculpture Garden and Art Museum, Dallas / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
̂ Soft boundaries / Alexandra Vougia : Moriyama house, Tokyo / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
Response: Broken buildings, building content / María González Pendás
1.4. Referents : Bubbly drinks and heavy machinery / Gabriela García de Cortázar
New Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Bolles + Wilson
The architecture of lightness / Sophia Psarra
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
Some thoughts on architectural sameness / Amanda Reeser Lawrence : The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architecture
Urban villa / Enrique Walker : Villa Schor, Brussels, Belgium / Office KGDVS
Ambivalence as agency / Aaron White : Alfred Lerner Hall Student Center, New York / Bernard Tschumi Architects
Response: #Buildings #Referents #BodyofWork (a response in 1416 words and 9786 characters) / Michael Meredith
̂ 1.5. Context : The building is the city is the building / Marta Caldeira : L'illa Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain / Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Solà-Morales
Re-visioning the Wexner Center : Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus / Peter Eisenman with Richard Trott
Circulation system / Joan Ockman : Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris / Frank Gehry
A reflection or a freestanding object? / Emmanouil Stavrakakis : The New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece / Bernard Tschumi Architects
Architectural iconolatry / Alexandra Vougia : Dubai Renaissance, Dubai, UAE / OMA, Rem Koolhaas
Response: Context and scale / Mary McLeod
1.6. Technology : Symbolic solids: or, The contract of the architect / Vera Bühlmann : Platonic solids, subdivided columns, digital grotesque, siteless / Michael Hansmeyer with Benjamin Dillenburger
Big data are for adding, not subtracting / Mario Carpo : Digital grotesque, siteless / Michael Hansmeyer & Benjamin Dillenburger
Sendai Mediatheque: three critical levels / Juan Antonio Cortés : Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan / Toyo Ito & Associates
The environment of knowledge / Marc Frochaux : Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne, Switzerland / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
Roller coaster construction revisited / Alejandro Zaera-Polo : Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, Yokohama, Japan / Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
Response: The "The" / Michael Young
2. Critical essays on The building : Building, building / Andrew Benjamin
Buildings, or how to let go of forgetting / Dora Epstein Jones
Materiality of figure, figures of materiality / K. Michael Hays
Untitled theories of building objects / Stephen Phillips
What buildings know / Philip Ursprung
3. The building in architectural education : Buildings and the stabilities of architecture / Anale Andraos
To build or not to build, in dialogue with the editor / Luis Fernández-Galiano
On building / Mónica Ponce de León
̂ Building concepts (why schools?)
Means and ends / Sarah Whiting
Afterword / Mark Cousins