Noah's Ark

CONTENTS

Introduction | Anthony Vidler

Prologue: Noah’s Ark

1 Aujourd’hui, l’architecture

2 The Column, the Wall

3 Composing with Painting

4 Perrault’s Colonnade and the Functions of the Classical Order

5 The Space Between: A Structuralist Approach to theDictionnaire: Viollet-le-Duc as a Forerunner of Structuralism

6 From Structuralism Back to Functionalism

7 Ledoux with Kant

8 L’Autre “Ich,” L’Autriche—Austria, or the Desire for the Void: Toward a Tomb for Adolf Loos

9 Ornament to the Edge of Indecency

10 Against the Slope: Le Corbusier’s La Tourette

11 The Slightest Difference: Mies van der Rohe and the Reconstruction of the Barcelona Pavilion

12 Architecture and Industry: Jean Prouvé, or the Parti of the Detail

13 Architecture Is . . .

14 Blotting Out Architecture? A Fable in Seven Parts