CONSTRUCTING

ANEW
AGENDA

ARCHITECTURAL
THEORY

1993-2009

A. KRISTA SYKES, EDITOR

Princeton Architectural Press

New York
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant,

and the Supple (1993)
GREG LYNN

Charter of the New Urbanism (1996)

CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM

Thoughts on the Everyday (1997)

DEBORAH BERKE

Mach 1 (and Other Mystic Visitations) (1997)

SANFORD KWINTER
90 A New Pragmatism? (1998)
JOHN RAJCHMAN

105 The Rural Studio (1998)

SAMUEL MOCKBEE

116 Field Conditions (1999)

STAN ALLEN

134 Junkspace (2000)

REM KOOLHAAS

152 The Cunning of Cosmetics (2000)

JEFFREY KiPNIS

165 Green Questionnaire (2001)

NORMAN FOSTER, JAN KAPLICKY, RICHARD ROGERS,

KEN YEANG, AND THOMAS HERZOG

176 Scale and Span in a Global Digital World (2001)

SASKIA SASSEN

18 8 Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods

of Modernism (2002)
ROBERT SOMOL AND SARAH WHITING

204 Design Intelligence (2002)

MICHAEL SPEAKS

216 From Principles to Practices:

Creating a Sustaining Architecture for the Twenty-

first Century (2003)
William Mcdonough and michael braungart
226 Boundaries/Networks (2003)
WILLIAM J. MITCHELL

246 Future City (2003)

FREDR1C JAMESON

268 Architecture and the Virtual: Towards a

New Materiality (2004)

ANTOINE PICON

290 No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent

Dutch Architecture... and Its Limitations (2004/5)

ROEMER VAN TOORN

318 Architecture's Expanded Field (2005)

ANTHONY VIDLER

332 Architecture by Numbers (2005)

K. MICHAEL HAYS

346 Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism (2005)

REINHOLD MARTIN

363
Technology, Place, and Nonmodern Regionalism (2005)
STEVEN A. MOORE

385 Raised to Observe: Glenn Murcutt (2005)

GLENN MURCUTT, INTERVIEWED BY CYNTHIA DAVIDSON

3 94 On Criticality (2006)
ARIE GRAAFLAND
421 Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and
Computation (2006)
KARL S. CHU

434 Introduction to Atlas ofNovel Tectonics (2006)

REISER + UMEMOTO

447 Practice Makes Perfect (2006/7)

SYLVIA LAVIN

460 Ru(m)inations: The Haunts of Contemporary

Architecture (2008)
JOHN McMORROUGH

472 Afterword
K. MICHAEL HAYS

477 Contributors'Biographies
485 Selected Bibliography
489 Index