Preface / John Hejduk. p. 8.

Introduction / Elizabeth Diller ; Diane Lewis. p. 9-13.

First year design

The Leadoux exercise / Raimund Abraham. p. 14-15.

Block Project / Anthony Candido. p. 20-21.

On Architecture / Chester Wisniewski. p. 22-23.

The Cartesian house / Raimund Abraham. p. 24-31.

Architectonics / Elizabeth Diller. p. 32-40.

Second year design

Conjugation / Ricardo Scofidio. p.41-62.

Object / Tod Williams. p.63-70.

Third year design

Analysis / Richard Henderson. p. 71-104.

Fourth year design

Notes from New York city / Diane Lewis. p.105-114.

Basic determinations of form in building / Richard Stein. p.115-127.

Thesis

November twenty seventh / David Shapiro. p. 128-130.

Instruments

Things heard / Regi Weile. p. 131-139.

Orders and projections

The anticipation of architecture / Raimund Abraham. p. 140-167.

The city

Iluminations of some urban remains / Remo Guidieri. p. 168-170.

The order of the city / Diana Agrest. p. 171-189.

The Institution

A critical practice : American architecture. In the last decade of the twentieth century / Peter Eisenman. p.190-234.

Outskirts

Connections / Carl Meinhardt. p. 235.

Excerpts from proportions, character, symbolismo, and scale / Peter Millard. p. 235-294.

The House

A house / Diane Lewis. p.255-280.

Bridges

Dialogue between Ezra and an Angel / Anthony Candido. p.282-296.

Topographes

Echoing Albuena / Sean Sculley. p. 297-311.

Texts.

An excercise in futility / David Shapiro. p.312.

To the earth / David Shapiro. p.312.

Proleptic items toward an unwritten

Prolegomenon on Walter pater, archtect of the soul / Jay Fellows. p. 313-338.

Writing writing / Don Wall. p. 339.

Evening in Llano / John Hejduk. p. 340-341.

Faculty 1972-1985 p. 342.

Lectures and critics p. 343-344.

Index p. 349-350.

List of illustrations p. 345-348.