Part 1 Complex spacing: time, function and alterity in architecture; resisting ambivalence - form and function in Eisenmann's architecture; opening resistant forms - recent projects of Reiser and Umemoto. Part 2 Architectural theory: building experience; building philosophy - towards architectural theory; lines of work - on diagrams and drawing. Part 3 Body, place and history: housing the future - the architecture of "Bladerunner"; policing the body - Descartes and the architecture of change; interrupting confession, resisting absolution -monuments after the Holocaust; guide to further reading.
