Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- 2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture -- 3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis -- 4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire -- 5 Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal's -- 6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos -- 7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz -- 8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered -- 9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations -- 10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice -- 11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine -- 12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges's "Vellum Sketchbook" -- 13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter -- About the Authors.