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Design and Class, 11

What is Nature Now?, 10

Constructions of Memory, 9

Housing and Community, 8

Conflicting Values, 7

Representations/ Misrepresentations, 6

Design Arts and Architecture, 5

Popular Places, 4

Durability and Ephemerality, 3

Recognizing Neglected Design, 2

Changing Cities, 1

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Nostalgia, Moscow Style by Svetlana Boym
Uniform Pluralism by Boris Groys

The Lesson of the Square by Slavenka Drakulic
Tales of an Absent Monument by Matthew S. Witkovsky
Before and After by Imre Benko and András Török
The Visibility of Monuments by Ákos Moravánszky
Three Passages Through (In)visible Warsaw by Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Portfolio
Beyond the (Post)modern: Three Czech Projects
critiqued by Jana Tichá

On Place
The New Metropolitanism and the Pluralized Public
by Thomas Bender
Visible Cities by David Lowenthal

Book Reviews
Karel Teige, 1900/1951
edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Svácha / reviewed by Jan Otakar Fischer
The Architecture of Oppression by Paul B. Jaskot / reviewed by Brian Ladd
City Making by Gerald E. Frug / reviewed by Robert Fishman
Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein / reviewed by Antoine Picon

Letters



Seventy-five Percent
by Ellen Dunham-Jones
The Spectacle of Ordinary Building by Mitchell Schwarzer
Privatized Lives by James S. Russell
Retro Urbanism by Peter Hall
Spectacle and Its Discontents by Luis Fernández-Galiano
We Dig Graves—All Sizes by Daniel Naegele
The Second Greatest Generation by Michael Sorkin

Portfolio: The New American Village photographs by Bob Thall

On Landscape: A Word for Landscape Architecture
by John Beardsley

On Design: When Is It Right to Be Wrong?
by Tim Benton

Book Reviews
The Situationist City
by Simon Sadler and Constant’s New Babylon by Mark Wigley / reviewed by Andy Merrifield
You Are Here by Frances Anderton et al. / reviewed by Wouter Vanstiphout
Apartment Stories by Sharon Marcus / reviewed by Barry Bergdoll
The Tourist by Dean MacCannell / reviewed by Daniel Naegele
The American Lawn edited by Georges Teyssot / reviewed by Julia Czerniak
The Fate of Place by Edward S. Casey / reviewed by Robert A. Beauregard



Class Notes
by Michael Benedikt
Three Houses by Suzannah Lessard
Always in Good Taste by Penny Sparke
Some Joint! by Iain Boyd Whyte
Inside the Blue Whale by Rick Poynor
The Other Trump by Edward Eigen
The Luxury of Lapidus by Alice T. Friedman
Class Rites in the Age of the Blockbuster by Alan Wallach
Of Books, Lattes, and Class Distinctions by Jim Collins
Farewell, Bohemia by Rebecca Solnit
The Social-Climbing Brick by Daniel Willis
Ornament and Spirit, Ornament and Class by Frederic J. Schwartz
An Education in Distinction by Margaret Crawford

On Design: Whimsy and Regimentation by Glenn Dixon

Book Reviews
Rethinking Architecture
edited by Neil Leach and The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neil Leach / reviewed by Anthony Vidler
Architecture and Modernity by Hilde Heynen / reviewed by David Leatherbarrow
Autonomy and Ideology edited by R. E. Somol / reviewed by Andrew Herscher
California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams / reviewed by Mitchell Schwarzer


Too Much: The Grand Canyon(s) by Lucy R. Lippard
The Destitution of Space by Albert Borgmann
Humans Supplant God; Everything Changesby Bill McKibben
What Do We Make of Nature Now? by Catherine Howett
Three Trees by Charles C. Mann
Smoky Mirrors and Unreflected Vampires by Robert France
Designs Necessary and Sublime by Jack Temple Kirby
Nature Used and Abused by Rossana Vaccarino
The Persistence of the Picturesque by Kate Soper and Martin Ryle
Kiss Nature Goodbye by John Beardsley

On Ideas: Describing the World at the End of the Millennium by Thomas Bender

On Place: After the War by Andreas Huyssen

On Design: Legacy at Risk by Rachel Carley

Book Reviews
FutureNatural
edited by Robertson, Mash, Tickner, Bird, Curtis, and Putnam / reviewed by Robert Riley
The Favored Circle by Garry Stevens / reviewed by Magali Sarfatti Larson
Origins of Architectural Pleasure by Grant Hilderbrand / reviewed by Val K. Warke
Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse / reviewed by James Cuno
Fundamentals of Building Construction by Edward Allen / reviewed by Daniel Willis
Sidewalk Critic edited by Robert Wojttowicz / reviewed by Robert Campbell

letters


Memory and Counter-Memory by James E. Young
The Past in the Present
by Kirk Savage
Half-Truths and Misquotations
by Robert Harbison
Mourning in Protest
by Harriet F. Senie
Between Rooms 307
by Mabel O. Wilson
Crowding the Mall
by James S. Russell
Time Incorporated by Richard M. Sommer
Penn's Shadow by Stanislaus von Moos
The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence
by Rebecca Solnit
Lives of the Dragon
by Jan Otakar Fischer
Learning from Lutyens by Hélene Lipstadt
Remembrance and Redemption
by Jay Winter
Make History, Not Memory by Daniel Abramson

On Ideas: Hello. . . Is Anybody Out There? by Tim Culvahouse

On Place: It's a Mall World After All by Tom Vanderbilt

Book Reviews
Cities in Civilization
by Sir Peter Hall / reviewed by Robert Fishman
The Architecture of Science edited by Peter Galison and Emily Thompson / reviewed by James S. Ackerman
What Gardens Mean by Stephanie Ross / reviewed by Robert Riley
Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage by Adolf Max Vogt and The Final Testament of Pere Corbu by Ivan Zaknic / reviewed by Daniel Naegele


Deadlock Plus 50 by Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan
Chicago and Beyond by Leland D. Cott
Can We Overcome Me? by Sam Davis
Rome Cannot Bear the Present by Maristella Casciato
Scatology, Eschatology, and the Modern Movement by Tim Benton
Beyond the Bully Pulpit by Nicolas P. Retsinas
Architecture for a Developing India by Vikram Bhatt
The Casa Chorizo by Jorge Francisco Liernur
Housing Density, Type, and Urban Life in Contemporary China by Peter G. Rowe
Diversity by Law by Jerold S. Kayden
To Ignore or Integrate? by David Gouverneur and Oscar Grauer
Why Should the Government Play a Role in Housing? by John M. Quigley
From the Puritans to the Projects by Lawrence Vale
Houses of Hope by Diane Ghirardo
Choice in Housing by Sherry B. Ahrentzen

On Place: The Spaces of Democracy by Richard Sennett

Portfolio: With the Whole in Mind by Wilfried Wang

Book Reviews
Red Vienna
by Eve Blau / reviewed by Kurt W. Forster
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis / reviewed by David Harvey
Unnatural Horizons by Allen S. Weiss / reviewed by Gary R. Hilderbrand
Women and the Making of the Modern House by Alice T. Friedman / reviewed by Abigail A. Van Slyck


Eyesore or Art? by John Beardsley
Less for Less Yet by Michael Benedikt
Beyond the Valley of Silicon Architecture by Mitchell Schwarzer
Toward an Architecture of Humility by Juhani Pallasmaa
Why Are Some Buildings More Interesting Than Others? by Kurt W. Forster
Questions of Value responses by Kenneth Frampton
With the Best Intentions by Denise Scott Brown
When Design Is Against the Law by Brenda Case Scheer
Inhale . . . The Future Has Already Begun by Ron Witte
History Matters by Alice T. Friedman
Most Architecture Should Be Modest by Roger Scruton
From Taste to Judgment by William S. Saunders

On Place: American Ruins by Camilo Jose Vergara

Portfolio: Linear Landscapes selection and commentary by Ken Smith

Book Reviews
Film Architecture
edited by Dietrich Neumann, Cinema & Architecture edited by Francois Penz and Maureen Thomas, and Film+Arc Graz 2 + 3 Internationale Biennale Film und Architektur / reviewed by Edward Dimendberg
Divided Highways by Tom Lewis / reviewed by Kenneth T. Jackson
Representation of Places by Peter Bosselmann / reviewed by Graham Larkin
Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise and The Ghosts of Berlin by Brian Ladd / reviewed by Jan Otakar Fischer
The Werkbund by Frederic J. Schwartz / reviewed by Andrew Herscher
Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism by Kathleen James / reviewed by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan


Over-Exposure by Thomas L. Schumacher
Picture This. Build That. by Willliam J. Mitchell
The Inconvenient Friend by Edward Ford
Operational Eidetics by James Corner
Picture This. by Sandy Isenstadt
To Collage or E-Collage? by Barbara Maria Stafford
Object, Image, Aura by Daniel Naegele
Genre Studies by Luis Fernandez-Galiano
Fading Photographs by James S. Russell
Showing What Otherwise Hides Itself by David Leatherbarrow
Reflections on a Polished Floor by Iain Boyd Whyte

Book Reviews: Classic Books
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolph Wittkower / reviewed by James S. Ackerman
Space, Time and Architecture by Sigfried Giedion / reviewed by Joseph Rykwert
Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier / reviewed by Jonathan Hale
Architecture without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky / reviewed by Felicity Scott
The Machine in the Garden by Leo Marx / reviewed by Edward Eigen
Selected books by J.B. Jackson / reviewed by Mitchell Schwarzer
Landscape for Living by Garrett Eckbo / reviewed by Robert Riley
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard / reviewed by Joan Ockman
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham / reviewed by Thomas L. Schumacher
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi and Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steve Izenour / reviewed by Robert Harbison
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs / reviewed by Elizabeth Wilson


Starck Speaks by Philippe Starck
P.S./P.C. by K. Michael Hays
Whatever Happened to Total Design? by Mark Wigley
Design as Export by Stephen Leet
Villa Planchart by Monica Ponce de Leon
"Thinking by Drawing" by Brooke Hodge
Loose Upper Lip by Deyan Sudjic
Who Will Sing the Marble Meadows? by Joseph O'Connor and Christine Smith
Mutant Materials by Paula Antonelli
Design and Fabrication by Toshiko Mori
Spirit of the Nineties by Renny Ramakers
And What About Industrial Design? by Steve Diskin

On Design: Rockbottom: Villa by OMA by Wouter Vanstiphout
Recent Architectural Paradigms and a Personal Alternative by Rafael Moneo

Book Reviews
Translations from Drawing to Building
by Robin Evans / reviewed by Joseph Rykwert
A Critic Writes by Reyner Banham / reviewed by Wouter Vanstiphout
City Life by Witold Rybczynski, Architecture of Fear edited by Nan Ellin
The New Urban Frontier by Neil Smith / reviewed by Edward Robbins


Locally Popular by John Stilgoe
Dialectical Utopias by Dave Hickey
Learning from Commercial Vernacular Architecture by Robert Venturi
No (Popular) Place Like Home by Jim Collins
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Marshall Berman
Fear of Mice by Andreas Huyssen
Status Quo Vadis? by Michael Sorkin
Invisible Spaces by Mabel Wilson
Manifest Density by George Wagner
Diana's London by Mark Cousins
The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble in Unusual Clothing by Rebecca Solnit
Small World by Martin Parr
Trespassing on Common Ground by Lucy R. Lippard
Chamber of Humors by Ralph Rugoff
Off-World in the Far West
by Mitchell Schwarzer
Television Modernism by Brett Steele

On Design: Beyond Wilderness and Lawn by Michael Pollan

Book Reviews: Cities and Urbanism
Evictions
by Rosalyn Deutsche / reviewed by Elizabeth Wilson
Public Space edited by Johann Goossens, Anja Guinée, and Wiebe Oosterhoff / reviewed by Ed Taverne
Cyber Cities by M. Christine Boyer, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome by Diane Favro, and Urban World/ Global City by David Clark / reviewed by Thomas Bender
Urban Verbs by Kevin R. McNamara / reviewed by Richard M. Sommer
Postmodern Cities and Spaces edited by Katherine Gibson and Sophie Watson and Writings on Cities by Henri Lefebvre translated and edited by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas / reviewed by Margaret Crawford
The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the 20th Century edited by Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja / reviewed by John Kaliski


Temporary Contracts by Ellen Dunham-Jones
The Theory and Practice of Impermanence by Edward Ford
Of Books, Bridges, and Durability by Henry Petroski
Intimations of Durability by Kenneth Frampton
The Rugged Steed by Thomas J. Campanella
What Goes Up, Must Come Down by Botond Bognar
"It's the Economy, Stupid!" by Luis Fernandez-Galiano
The Curse of Durability by Alexander von Hoffman
Enduring (Post)modernism by Angelika Schnell
The Durability of Reputation by Gavin Stamp
The Interpretative Imperative by Sandy Isenstadt
20th-Century American Ruins by Camilo Jose Vergara
High Tech and Such Misnomers by Demetri Porphyrios

Portfolio: Webs of Steel Drawings by T. Kelly Wilson

On Design: The Euclidian Piazza by Marvin Trachtenberg

Book Reviews: History and Theory
Differences
by Ignasi de Sola-Morales / reviewed by George Baird
Inside Architecture by Vittorio Gregotti / reviewed by Richard Ingersoll
Heimlich Manoeuvers by Kari Jormakka / reviewed by Mark Mulligan
Reconstructing Architecture edited by Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann / reviewed by Andrew Herscher
Architecture after Modernism by Diane Ghirardo / reviewed by Liane Lefaivre
Thirteen Ways by Robert Harbison / reviewed by Thomas Fisher


Still Modern After All These Years by Thomas L. Schumacher
Consensus Terrorism by Wouter Vanstiphout
Built Progress by Wilfried Wang
The Absence of Presence by Diane Ghirardo
Curious Voids by Vittorio Gregotti
Grace and Architecture by Roger Connah
The Rewards of Experiment by Susana Torre
Process as Craft by Toshiko Mori
Sinan's Bridge by William L. MacDonald
A Thoroughly Modern Man by Simon Swaffield
American Curves by Thomas J. Campanella
Green Chaos by Robert Riley
Why Not Pleasure? by James S. Ackerman
Still Here by Max Bond
Due Recognition by John Morris Dixon
"Every Inch Alive" by Lisa Germany
Midwestern Master by Cynthia Weese
The Light Between Gardens by Carlos Jimenez

On Design: The Life of Ideas in Architecture
by Robert Harbison

On Education: Genetic Code: Computer and Design Incompatibilities by Malcolm McCullough

On Practice: Living with House VI by Bill Hubbard Jr.

Book Reviews
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
by Neil Levine / reviewed by Anthony Alofsin
Stanley Saitowitz: A House in the Transvaal edited George Wagner / reviewed by Graham Owen
As I Was Saying by Colin Rowe / reviewed by George Baird


Ozzie and Harriet in Hell by Mike Davis
A Prospect of St. Louis by Richard M. Sommer
Skid Row, Los Angeles by Camilo Jose Vergara
Cities after the End of Cities by Robert Fishman
The Transfrontier Metropolis by Lawrence A. Herzog
The Revanchist City by Neil Smith
The Architecture, the Book, and the Diskette by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
A Decent Life: Dilemmas of Urbanization by M. Ismail Serageldin
Cities of Impossibility by Michael Kirkland
Modern and Asian by Peter G. Rowe
Empowerment in Abidjan by Mona Serageldin and Francois Vigier
One Space, Two Worlds by Rahul Mehrotra
Modern and Islamic by Mina Marefat

New Urbanism
Urban or Suburban?
A Roundtable discussion among Carol Burns, Robert Campbell, Andres Duany, Jerold Kayden, and Alex Krieger. Commentary by Ellen Dunham-Jones, Gerald E. Frug, Alex Krieger, William Morrish, John O. Norquist, Edward Robbins, Gretchen Schneider, Daniel Solomon, and Gwendolyn Wright
A Modest Proposal for a New Sub-Urbanism by Colin Rowe
The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap by David Harvey

Book Reviews: Gender and Design
Sexuality and Space
edited by Beatriz Colomina / reviewed by Elizabeth Wilson
Not at Home edited by Christopher Reed / reviewed by Joan Ockman
Discrimination by Design by Leslie Kanes Weisman, Women and Planning by Clara Greed, Safe Cities edited by Gerda R. Wekerle and Carolyn Whitzman / reviewed by Grahame Shane
Space, Place and Gender by Doreen Massey, Architecture and Feminism edited by Coleman, Danze, Henderson / reviewed by Diane Ghirardo
STUD edited by Joel Sanders / reviewed by George Wagner
The Sex of Architecture edited by Agrest, Conway, Weisman / reviewed by Sharon Haar
The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice edited by Francesca Hughes / reviewed by Susana Torre
Feminism and Geography by Gillian Rose / reviewed by Linda Pollak
Architecture: In Fashion edited by Fausch, Singley, eh-Khoury, Efrat / reviewed by Lauren Kogod