Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- 1 - Formative Years -- 2 - Collective Form -- Collective Form: A Preface -- Investigations in Collective Form -- Linkage in Collective Form -- Time and Landscape: Collective Form at Hillside Terrace -- 3 - On the City -- City and Modernism -- My City: The Acquisition of Mental Landscapes -- America: Highways, Detached Houses, and Skyscrapers -- The Drawing Called Brasília -- Notes on Urban Space -- Space, Territory, and Perception -- Reflections on Harvard's 1956 Urban Design Conference -- The Japanese City and Inner Space -- The Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium -- 4 - On Architects and Architecture -- The Le Corbusier Syndrome: On the Development of Modern Architecture in Japan -- Making Architecture in Japan -- Togo Murano -- Stillness and Plenitude: The Architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi -- On the Industrial Vernacular -- The Roof at Fujisawa -- On Universality -- Architectural Modernity and the Consciousness Called the Present -- Notes and Credits -- Notes -- Original Publication Data -- Photo Credits -- Acknowledgments.