Contents
Foreword
Deyan Sudjic
Introduction
Tightrope Walking with the “Circus of the Perpetually Jet-Lagged”
Janet Abrams
Lubetkin Speaks
Berthold Lubetkin
Building Design, 1982
(Mis)Reading Between the Lines
Peter Eisenman
Blueprint, 1985
My Tea with Andrée
Andrée Putman
Blueprint, 1985
Miami Vice Versa 1: Of Vice and Vixen
Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear / Arquitectonica
Blueprint, 1986
Miami Vice Versa 2: Town Kriers
Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk / Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.
Blueprint, 1986
Now We Are Eighty
Philip Johnson
Blueprint, 1987
Delirious Visions
Rem Koolhaas
Blueprint, 1988
Reyner Banham: A Past Master
Blueprint, 1988
Call That a Fish, Frank?
Frank Gehry
Blueprint, 1988
When the Sky Falls In
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Blueprint, 1988–89
A Tale of the Riverbank
Sir Christopher Wren
The Independent, 1989
Britischer Architekt
James Stirling and Michael Wilford
The Independent, 1989
Phyllis’s Choice
Phyllis Lambert
Blueprint, 1990
The World According to Mickey
Michael Eisner
Blueprint, 1991
“This Must Be Progress”—The Master of Modernism on God, Graphics, and Other
Devotions
Paul Rand
I.D. Magazine, 1993
Woman and Her Symbols
April Greiman
it’snotwhatyouthinkitis / cen’estpascequevouscroyez arc en rêve centre d’architecture, 1994
Gesamtkunstwerk: Coming Home to Rome
Michael Graves
Michael Graves: Designer Monographs 3, 1994
Richard Saul Wurman Gets What He Deserves
I.D. Magazine, 1994
Muriel Cooper’s Visible Wisdom
I.D. Magazine, 1994
A Man for All Media
Bob Stein
I.D. Magazine, 1995
When We Were Very Young
Philip Johnson
Blueprint, 1996
Best of All Possible Worlds
David Rockwell
I.D. Magazine, 1996
Information Overlord
Michael Bloomberg
Rethinking Design 4: Medium, 1997
The Choreography of Site-Specific Media
Lisa Strausfeld
Profile: Pentagram Design, 2004
Julie Snow: The Rugged and the Refined
Julie Snow Architects, 2005
Ge(ne)ography
Ben Fry
Else/Where: Mapping—New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, 2006
Postscripts
Acknowledgments
Credits