Frontmatter -- TABLE OF contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Biographical Notes -- 1. Wall: exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, London 1972 -- The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference -- The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life -- Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning -- 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987 -- Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism -- Void and Future Development -- Void as Environment of Control and Choice -- The Armature of Genericity -- 3. Montage: maison à Bordeaux, France 1994–1998 -- Dismantling Modernist Fragments -- The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture -- Montage and Filmic Reality -- 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999–2003 -- The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body -- Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative -- Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic -- 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999–2004 -- Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space -- Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation -- Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere -- 6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002–2008 -- The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper -- Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Imprint |