Aleksandra Wagner, Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita The New School University, Member, Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She co-edited Considering Forgiveness (2009) and Lebbeus Woods: Zagreb Free Zone Revisited (2021), and translated Lebbeus Woods, War and Architecture (1993) into Serbo-Croatian. Executor of the Estate of Lebbeus Woods.Neil Spiller, Editor-in-Chief of AD, previously the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, where he was also Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. He was also a Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Neil’s previous publications include the books Educating Architects (2014), Architecture and Surrealism (2016), and How to Thrive in Architecture School—A Student Guide (2020). He has guest-edited several issues of AD.

• About the Editors 5Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerIntroduction 6A Fecund LuciditySpadework for a PalaceNeil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerSelf-Portrait with Burned Weapon 14The Wound That Does Not HealMark DorrianInventing the World 22In and Around Illinois, 1960-75Sharon IrishFrom Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture 30Ben SweetingFraming the Sky, Etching Clay 38Walls of the MidwestKevin EricksonLebbeus — A Postmodernist? 48Early Scenes of Shopping and DwellingAaron BetskyAttuned Rigour 58Between Pictorial and Material ConditionsRiet EeckhoutMagical Transubstantiations 68A Voyage to ItalyAleksandra Wagner and Neil SpillerMyth and Measure 74Drawings of the 1970sLawrence RinderPost-Apocalypse 84The 'Ring' CycleJörg H GleiterIn Place of Light 92On Early WritingsEliyahu KellerPolymorphic Matters 102Architecture, Change and ImaginationAshley SimoneExit Velocity 110Einstein TombJoseph BeckerCatalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys 118Peter Cook'The notion of "early years" – a search for modes of thought and for techniques that would make such thoughts readable – has an aura of excitement and discovery, combined with a youthful productivity of output' — Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerFrom Another PerspectiveThe Samizdats 128Subversive PolemicNeil SpillerContributors 134

Aleksandra Wagner, Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita The New School University, Member, Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She co-edited Considering Forgiveness (2009) and Lebbeus Woods: Zagreb Free Zone Revisited (2021), and translated Lebbeus Woods, War and Architecture (1993) into Serbo-Croatian. Executor of the Estate of Lebbeus Woods.Neil Spiller, Editor-in-Chief of AD, previously the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, where he was also Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. He was also a Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Neil’s previous publications include the books Educating Architects (2014), Architecture and Surrealism (2016), and How to Thrive in Architecture School—A Student Guide (2020). He has guest-edited several issues of AD.

• About the Editors 5Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerIntroduction 6A Fecund LuciditySpadework for a PalaceNeil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerSelf-Portrait with Burned Weapon 14The Wound That Does Not HealMark DorrianInventing the World 22In and Around Illinois, 1960-75Sharon IrishFrom Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture 30Ben SweetingFraming the Sky, Etching Clay 38Walls of the MidwestKevin EricksonLebbeus — A Postmodernist? 48Early Scenes of Shopping and DwellingAaron BetskyAttuned Rigour 58Between Pictorial and Material ConditionsRiet EeckhoutMagical Transubstantiations 68A Voyage to ItalyAleksandra Wagner and Neil SpillerMyth and Measure 74Drawings of the 1970sLawrence RinderPost-Apocalypse 84The 'Ring' CycleJörg H GleiterIn Place of Light 92On Early WritingsEliyahu KellerPolymorphic Matters 102Architecture, Change and ImaginationAshley SimoneExit Velocity 110Einstein TombJoseph BeckerCatalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys 118Peter Cook'The notion of "early years" – a search for modes of thought and for techniques that would make such thoughts readable – has an aura of excitement and discovery, combined with a youthful productivity of output' — Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerFrom Another PerspectiveThe Samizdats 128Subversive PolemicNeil SpillerContributors 134

Aleksandra Wagner, Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita The New School University, Member, Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She co-edited Considering Forgiveness (2009) and Lebbeus Woods: Zagreb Free Zone Revisited (2021), and translated Lebbeus Woods, War and Architecture (1993) into Serbo-Croatian. Executor of the Estate of Lebbeus Woods.Neil Spiller, Editor-in-Chief of AD, previously the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, where he was also Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. He was also a Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Neil’s previous publications include the books Educating Architects (2014), Architecture and Surrealism (2016), and How to Thrive in Architecture School—A Student Guide (2020). He has guest-edited several issues of AD.

• About the Editors 5Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerIntroduction 6A Fecund LuciditySpadework for a PalaceNeil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerSelf-Portrait with Burned Weapon 14The Wound That Does Not HealMark DorrianInventing the World 22In and Around Illinois, 1960-75Sharon IrishFrom Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture 30Ben SweetingFraming the Sky, Etching Clay 38Walls of the MidwestKevin EricksonLebbeus — A Postmodernist? 48Early Scenes of Shopping and DwellingAaron BetskyAttuned Rigour 58Between Pictorial and Material ConditionsRiet EeckhoutMagical Transubstantiations 68A Voyage to ItalyAleksandra Wagner and Neil SpillerMyth and Measure 74Drawings of the 1970sLawrence RinderPost-Apocalypse 84The 'Ring' CycleJörg H GleiterIn Place of Light 92On Early WritingsEliyahu KellerPolymorphic Matters 102Architecture, Change and ImaginationAshley SimoneExit Velocity 110Einstein TombJoseph BeckerCatalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys 118Peter Cook'The notion of "early years" – a search for modes of thought and for techniques that would make such thoughts readable – has an aura of excitement and discovery, combined with a youthful productivity of output' — Neil Spiller and Aleksandra WagnerFrom Another PerspectiveThe Samizdats 128Subversive PolemicNeil SpillerContributors 134