1962-1980 23 Symbolic and Literal Aspects of Technology 27 Formal and Functional Interactions: a Study of Two Late Buildings by Le Corbusier 34 Displacement of Concepts in Le Corbusier 45 Typology and Design Method 52 Rules, Realism and History 58 Alvar Aalto: Type versus Function 64 The Superblock 78 Centraal Beheer 82 Plateau Beaubourg 90 Frames to Framework 97 Historicism and the Limits of Semiology 106 Sign and Substance: Reflections on Complexity, Las Vegas and Oberlin 116 EH Gombrich and the Hegelian Tradition 122 EH Gombrich: "Symptoms and Syndromes"In Search of Cultural History 124 The Beaux-Arts Plan: Viollet-le-Duc's Transformation of the Parisian Hotel Particulier 130 Form and Figure 140 From Bricolage to Myth, or How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again
PART II 154 Three Kinds of Historicism
1980-1989 163 Rationalism: a Philosophical Concept in Architecture 178 Composition the Project versus 184 Vernacular Classicism 190 A Way of Looking at the Present Situation 193 The Significance of Le Corbusier 201 Architecture and Engineering: Le Corbusier and the Paradox of Reason 215 The Strategies of the Grand Travaux 226 Classicism and Ideology 228 Regionalism and Technology 230 "Newness" and "Age-Value" in Alois Riegl 233 Postmodern Critical Attitudes 238 Postmodernism and Structuralism: a Retrospective Glance
PART III 248 Reyner Banham: A Reading for the 1980s
1989-2004 253 The Le Corbusier Centenary 268 The Nineteenth Century Terminus Station as Cultural Artefact 280 Regionalism 1 287 Regionalism 2 292 Axonometry, Ancient and the Modern 302 Criticism and Self-criticism in German Modernism 315 Architectural Manifestos of the 1960s in America 321 Lost Illusions 325 Esprit de Corps 329 Notes on Public Policy and City Planning in Europe since 1840 335 Changing Museum