Includes bibliographical references and index.

Master and Slave Unit mobile home -- Otterlo -- The Netherlands -- Atelier van Lieshout -- Aura house -- Tokyo -- Japan -- F.O.B. Association -- Photographer's retreat -- Foxhall -- Northamptonshire -- UK -- Niall McLaughlin -- Summer house -- Risor -- Norway -- Carl-Viggo Holmebakk -- Paper log house for disaster relief -- Kobe -- Japan -- Shigeru Ban -- Apartment block in Innsbruck -- Innsbruck -- Austria -- Kathan-Schranz-Strolz -- Pacemaker -- UK -- Birds Portchmouth Russum -- Housing and commercial block -- Rathenow -- Germany -- Klaus Sill and Jochen Keim -- Masgonty house -- Saint Pardoux La Riviere -- France -- Anne Lacaton and -- Jean Philippe Vassal -- Bo Klok housing -- Sweden -- Ahlstrom Arkitektbyra -- For IKEA -- Art house -- London -- UK -- Brookes, Stacey, Randall -- Mercaders building -- Barcelona -- Spain -- Enric Miralles and -- Benedetta Tagliabue -- Architect's mother's house -- Plymouth -- UK -- Alex de Rijke -- Farmhouse extensions -- St Martin an der Raab -- Burgenland -- Austria -- Walter Pichler -- Grania Oi -- Findhorn -- Moray -- Scotland -- UK -- Nicole Edmonds -- Nautilus Earthship -- Taos -- New Mexico -- USA -- Michael Reynolds - -- Solar Survival -- Architect's house -- Ziegelried -- Near Bern -- Switzerland -- Elemer Zalotay -- Round House -- Near Newport -- Pembrokeshire -- Wales -- UK -- Tony Wrench -- Shouse -- Okayama Prefecture -- Jopan -- Kazuyo Sejima and -- Ryue Nishizawa -- Graven Road house -- Toronto -- Conada -- Shim-Sutcliffe Architects -- Housing and commercial block -- Cologne -- Germany -- Brandlhuber & Kniess -- Double House (Villa KBWW) -- Utrecht -- The Netherlands -- De architectengroep -- And MVRDV -- Convent Avenue studios -- Tucson -- Arizona -- USA -- Rick Joy -- Emscher Park housing -- Gelsenkirchen -- Germany -- Szyszkowitz & Kowalski -- Co-operative housing -- Hjulby Hegn -- Sporring -- Denmark -- Arkitektgruppen Aarhus -- Spiral apartment building -- Ramat-Gan -- Near Tel Aviv -- Israel -- Zvi Hecker with -- Gil Bernstein -- Shmuel Groberman -- And Rina Hering -- Kitagata apartments -- Gifu Prefecture -- Japan -- Kazuyo Sejima & Associates -- Open City -- Valparaiso -- Chile -- Members of the -- Open City co-operative -- Architect's father's house -- Motiti Island -- New Zealand -- Anthony Hoete -- Villa Vision -- Taastrup -- Denmark -- Flemming Skude -- Ivar Moltke and Bertel Jensen -- Hope House -- East Molesey -- Surrey -- UK -- Bill Dunster -- Pen-y-Lyn -- Crymych -- Pembrokeshire -- Wales -- UK -- Christopher Day -- Harris house -- Mason's Bend -- Alabama -- USA -- Samuel Mockbee -- And the Rural Studio -- Ecohouse 99 -- Skejby -- Denmark -- Tegnestuen Vandkunsten -- Solar studio house -- Rieselfeld -- Baden Wurttemburg -- Germany -- Professor Thomas -- Spiegelhalter -- Architect's house -- Sunnyslope -- Phoenix -- Arizona -- USA -- Wendell Burnette -- Can Lis and Can Feliz -- Near Porto Petro -- Majorca -- Spain -- Jorn Utzon -- Rudin house -- Leymen -- Haut Rhin -- France -- Herzog & de Meuron -- Stretto House -- Dallas -- Texas -- USA -- Steven Holl Architects -- Crosby Hall -- London -- UK -- Carden & Godfrey Architects -- House near Bordeaux -- Floriac -- Bordeaux -- France -- OMA/Rem Koolhaas.

Striking new solutions to familiar problems of form, function, materials, and constraints of space and presented in this book's examination of key contemporary buildings that radically reconfigure the usual parameters.