Opening / Marc J. Neveu and Negin Djavaherian
Part I. Invoking the gods : The reading chamber / Robert Kirkbride
The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the death of architecture / Karsten Harries
Reading what is written between the lines: the esoteric dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden cities of to-morrow / Paul Emmons
On virtue and Thomas Jefferson / Indra Kagis McEwen
Interlude A : The architect's fall / Santiago de Orduña
Part II. Worldmaking : Made in usage: architecture in Furetière's Dictionnaire universel / Caroline Dionne
Beyond expression / Lily Chi
On water and other fluids: a bloody account of urban circulation / Louise Pelletier
Earth or world? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination / Lawrence Bird
Interlude B : The door of theory / Marco Frascari
Part III. Flesh/Eros : Tough love: a study of the architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen / David Leatherbarrow
Flesh of stone: buildings, statues, entangled bodies / Tracey Eve Winton
Genius as Eros / Lian Chikako Chang
The tactile legacy of Alvar Aalto and its relevance to contemporary practice / Kenneth Frampton
Interlude C : Sigmund Freud or the dark forest [crossed out] room revisited / Natalija Subotincic
Part IV. Fusion of horizons : Voices of tranquility: silence in art and architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa
An architectural creation myth borrowed from the phenomenology of music / Stephen Parcell
Modus operandi of an architectus doli: architectural cunning in the comic plays of Plautus / Lisa Landrum
Towards an ecology of the Palladian villa / Graham Livesey
Interlude D : Transformative power of architecture / Steven Holl
Part V. After the crisis : Juan O'Gorman and the genesis and overcoming of functionalism in Mexican modern architecture / Juan Manuel Heredia
Architecture or acceleration: position as opposition / Anne Bordeleau
Building upon love in an age of innovation / Peter Olshavsky
Content and craft: what do we do when we do the history of architecture? / David Theodore
Interlude E : Two poems 2000-2011 / Ricardo L. Castro.
