Introduction: the fugitive -- the logic of uselessness -- White ring --Signs of light -- Silver hut -- What is the reality of architecture in a futuristic city? -- Dismantling and reconstituting the "house" in a disordered city -- Architecture for the simulated city -- Architectural scenery in the saran wrap city -- A garden of microchips -- Tarzans in the media forest -- Shedding the modern body image: is a house without criticality possible? -- The Sendai Mediatechque as a new dom-ino system -- Ichiro-like architects: on the reality of architecture -- Dynamic delight over aesthetic purity -- The new 'real': toward reclaiming materiality in contemporary architecture -- Learning from a tree -- Instead of an Afterword.