CONTENTS Some Scattered Thoughts Instead of a Foreword by Thom Mayne 6 University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center 20 WEAVING AS A MEANS FORESTABLISHING FLOW NOAA Satellite Operarions Facility 68 ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF BODY AND BRAIN Herald-Examiner Residential Tower 100 DEFINE THE SEPARATION OF SPACES WITHIN UNITS Cahill Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics 118 USING THE OLD AS A GENERATIVE SOURCE Alaska State Capital 138 A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF DEMOCRACY Giant Campus 156 EMERGING ORGANICALLY FROM COMPLEXITY Burj Al Maydan 182 BEYOND THE ICONIC TOWER TO RECONNECT Continuties of the Incomplete 200 CONNECTED ISOLATION, A UNIQUE PANORAMA University of Chicago Centre for Creative and Performing Arts 218 A LANDMARK OF CONFLUENCE Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse 236 REPOSITIONING THE PROCEEDINGS OF BUSINESS AS USUAL New Orleans National Jazz Centre 280 OPTIMISTIC VISION FOR A NEW CIVIC CORE Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank 300 INCORPORATING SYSTEMS OF ECCENTRICITY San Francisco Federal Building 340 BUILDING THE MODELS OF OUR CIVIC SUSTAINABILITY Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum 386 HYBRIDIZED MUSUEM OF CONGREGATION Madrid Public Housing 404 A TYPOLOGY OF POROSITY TO REALIZE SOCIAL IDEALS Phare Tower 438 SYNTHESIZING IDIOSYNCRASIES TO MENT A SITE Project Credits 472 Acknowledgments 488