S, M, L, XL: [Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau]

Contents

Foreplay: Exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture -- Delirious New York. Small: Less is more -- The house that made Mies -- Dutch section -- +/- [plus minus]13000 points -- Learning Japanese -- Worth a detour -- Obstacles -- Only 90 [degrees], please -- Imagining nothingness -- The terrifying beauty of the twentieth century. Large: Bigness, or the problem of large -- Soft substance, harsh town -- Indeterminate specificity -- Dirty realism -- Working Babel -- Bifurcation -- Strategy of the void -- Weird science -- Last apples -- Darwinian arena -- Passion play -- Organization of appearances -- Palace of the Soviets. Extra large: The white sheet -- Atlanta -- Las Vegas of the welfare state -- Unlearning Holland -- Congestion without matter -- Elegy for the vacant lot -- Their new sobriety -- What ever happened to urbanism? -- Surrender -- Dolphins -- Singapore songlines: thirty years of tabula rasa -- Tabula rasa revisited -- Side show -- Quantum leap -- Programmatic lava -- The generic city -- P.S. -- Unraveling. Medium: Field trip: (a) a memoir -- Revision -- Shipwrecked -- Final push -- Cadavre exquis -- Typical plan -- Byzantium -- Globalization -- Vanishing act -- Islam after Einstein -- New Rotterdam -- Life in the box? -- Neue Sachlichkeit.