Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Architectural curvilinearity : the folded, the pliant, and the supple / Greg Lynn -- Charter of the New Urbanism / Congress for the New Urbanism -- Thoughts on the everyday / Deborah Berke -- Mach 1 (and other mystic visitations) / Sanford Kwinter -- A new pragmatism? / John Rajchman -- The rural studio / Samuel Mockbee -- Field conditions / Stan Allen -- Junkspace / Rem Koolhaas -- The cunning of cosmetics / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Green questionnaire / Norman Foster, Jan Kaplicky, Richard Rogers, Ken Yeang, and Thomas Herzog -- Scale and span in a global digital world / Saskia Sassen -- Notes around the Doppler Effect and other moods of modernism / Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting -- Design intelligence / Michael Speaks -- From principles to practices : creating a sustaining architecture for the twenty-first century / William McDonough and Michael Braungart -- Boundaries/networks / William J. Mitchell -- Future city / Fredric Jameson -- Architecture and the virtual : towards a new materiality / Antoine Picon -- No more dreams? : the passion for reality in recent Dutch architecture-- and its limitations / Roemer van Toorn -- Architecture's expanded field / Anthony Vidler -- Architecture by numbers / K. Michael Hays -- Critical of what? : toward a utopian realism / Reinhold Martin -- Technology, place, and nonmodern regionalism / Steven A. Moore -- Raised to observe : Glenn Murcutt / interviewed by Cynthia Davidson -- On criticality / Arie Graafland -- Metaphysics of genetic architecture and computation / Karl S. Chu -- Introduction to Atlas of novel tectonics / Reiser + Umemoto -- Practice makes perfect / Sylvia Lavin -- Ru(m)inations : the haunts of contemporary architecture / John McMorrough -- Afterword / K. Michael Hays -- Contributors' biographies -- Selected bibliography -- Index.