Table of Contents: “…Foster at the zoo; Andreas Papadakins remembered; Peng chastises Western architects in China -- Made in China / Michael Webb -- China-- National stadium, Beijing / Herzog & De Meuron -- Television headquarters, Beijing / Office for Metropolitan Architecture -- Art academy, Hangzhou / Amateur Architecture Studio -- Art museum, Beijing / Arata Isozaki & Associates -- Church, Beijing / Von Gerkan, Marg & Partners -- Space for art / Various Architects -- How Chinese cities are being utterly transformed // Interview with Zhang Xin of development company Soho / Michael Webb -- the experience of Western firms working in China / Thomas Kerwin --MAD, Beijing -- Studio Pei-Zhu, Beijing -- MADA s.p.a.m., Shanghai and Xi'an -- Urbanus ARchitecture & Design, Shenzhen and Beijing -- Restaurant, Beijing CL3 -- Le Corbusier; architect and engineer; topologies; the symbol at your door -- Herzog & de Meuron on film; Browser; Diary -- Zero Energy Media Wall, Beijing / Simone Giostra With Arup and Jeremy Rotsztain -- National Stadium, Beijin / Herzog & De Meuron…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Architecture's expanded field -- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel -- The search for modern form -- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression -- American rediscovered, tall and wide -- The challenge of the metropolis -- New production, new aesthetic -- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism -- The Great War and its side effects -- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands -- Return to order in Paris -- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism -- Architectural education in turmoil -- Architecture and revolution in Russia -- The architecture of social reform -- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy -- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms -- North American modernities -- Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Modern languages conquer the world -- COlonial experiences and new nationalism -- Architecture of a total war -- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives -- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted -- The shape of American hegemony -- Repression and diffusion of modernism -- Toward new utopias -- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture -- After 1968: architecture for the city -- The postmodern season -- From regionalism to critical internationalism -- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech -- Architecture's outer boundaries -- Vanishing points.…”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Un Pavillon d'exposition a Stockholm (Palais Ahrensberg) 1962. -- Musée national des Beaux-Arts de l' Occidente a Tokyo. 1957/59. -- La Maison du Bresil a la Cite Universitaire a Paris. 1957/59. -- Fin d'un Monde. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- 1927/28: Projet pour le palais des Nations a Geneve. -- 1928: Pavillon Nestlé. -- Congres de la Sarraz. -- Villa a Carthage. -- 1928-29: Projets Wanner, Geneve. -- Immeuble pour Artistes. -- Immeubel locatif. -- Maison Savoie a Poissy. -- 1929: Projet pour le Mundaneum. -- Projet por la Cité Mondiale. -- Maisons Loucheur. .. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- 1936/1945: Le Ministere de l'Education nationale et de la Santé publique a Rio de Janeiro. -- Ministry of National Education and Public Health in Rio de Janeiro. -- Lettres de Oscar Niemeyer et Lucio Costa, Rio de Janeiro. -- 1940: Exposition de La France d'outre-mer a Paris. -- Les maisons Murondins. -- Ecoles volantes pour les refugiés de la premiere partie de la guerre 1939/40. -- Une école volante. -- Problemes de l'Ensoleillement. …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- 1936-1937: Plan pour un centre national d rejouissance de 100000 participants. -- 1935: Plan d'une piscine a vagues, domaine de Badjarah, Alger. -- Immeuble de colonisation a Nemours. -- Immeuble locatiff rue Fabert, París. -- 1938: La cite d'affaires d'Alge. -- La reorganisation agraire: 1934-1938 Le village cooperatif. -- Des standars: 1936 Boutiques Bat'a. -- 1935: Elements mobiliers d'un appartement de jeune homme a l'Exposition de Bruxelles. -- Petities maison: 1935: Une maison de week-end. -- 1929: Ma maison. -- 1935: Plans pour la residence du president d'un college pres de Chicago. -- 1935: Maison aux Mathes. -- Les expositions: L'Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937. -- 1932: Projet A: Vicennes. -- 1934: Projet B: Kellermann. -- 1935: Projet C: Un centre d'esthetique contemporaine. -- 1935: Exposition Louis Carré. -- Projet D; Le Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux. -- 1937: Le Pavillon Bat'a.. …”