CONTENT: FOREWORD by Dietmar Steiner 2 OF TOOLS AND INSPIRATION. THE ECONOMIES OF ARCHITECTURAL CREATIVITY by Elke Krasny 5 ARCHITECTURAL FIELDWORK: TWENTY STUDIO VISITS ALVAR AALTO 14 LINA Bo BARDI 20 ATELIER Bow-Wow 28 HERMANN CZECH 34 DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO 42 EDGE DESIGN INSTITUTE 46 YONA FRIEDMAN 52 ANTONI GAUDI' 58 Lux GUYER 64 STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS 68 THE JERDE PARTNERSHIP 72 LACATON & VASSAL 78 RUDOLF OLGIATI 84 CHARLOTTE PERRIAND 88 R&SIEJN) 94 THEISS & JAKSCH/SCHWALM-THEISS 100 KARL SCHWANZER 106 SOM SKIDMORE, OWINGS& MERRILL 112 UNStudio 118 VENTURI SCOTT BROWN & ASSOCIATES 124 SNAPSHOTS 131 TOOL STORIES THE MEANS AND THE END by Robert Temel140 ROUNDER THAN GIOTTO'S 0 by Gerhard Vana 144 A LITTLE LEXICON OF TOOLS THE SKETCH 150 PENCIL, TRACING PAPER & SKETCHUP 152 THE PLAN 156 DRAWING PENS, RAZOR BLADES & CAD 158 COMPASS, STENCIL & INDY 162 SET-SQUARE, T-SQUARE & VECTORWORKS 166 PANTOGRAPH, PRINT MACHINE & PHOTOCOPIER 168 PAPER, LETRASET&AIRBRUSH 170 THE MODEL 174 STANLEY KNIFE, GLUE & 30 PLOTTER 176 3D MODELING, BEZIER CURVES & RENDER ENGINES 180 CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES 186 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 188