Contents -- Preface -- PART I: COMPLEX SPACING -- Introduction -- 1 Time, function and alterity in architecture -- 2 Resisting ambivalence: form and function in Eisenman's architecture -- 3 Opening resisting forms: recent projects of Reiser and Umemoto -- PART II: ARCHITECTURAL THEORY -- Introduction -- 4 Building experience: Kant and Leibniz -- 5 Building philosophy: towards architectural theory -- 6 Lines of work: on diagrams and drawings -- PART III: BODY, PLACE AND HISTORY -- Introduction -- 7 Housing the future: the architecture of Blade Runner -- 8 Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change -- 9 Interrupting confession, resisting absolution: monuments after the Holocaust -- Annotated guide to further reading -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Y -- Z.