A collection of the best papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, highlighting the breadth and vitality of architectural studies, and featuring new directions from rising talent alongside the experience of established writers. Introduction vii Foreword xi Illustration credits xiii Part 1 Architects and the practice of design 1(70) Language, sites and types: a consideration of the work of Alvaro Siza 3(26) Robert A. Levit Architecture as artifice 29(10) Karin Jaschke Frank Gehry: roofing, wrapping, and wrapping the roof 39(32) Gevork Hartoonian Part 2 Architecture and the discourses of science 71(88) Proun: an exercise in the illusion of four-dimensional space 73(32) Richard J. Difford Complexities 105(24) Reinhold Martin The meaning of molluscs: Leonce Reynaud and the Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate of 1830, Paris 129(30) Paula Young Lee Part 3 Issues of materiality 159(42) Between the barrier and the sieve: finding the border in the Modern Movement 161(12) Helmut Lethen The problem of our walls 173(16) Brian Hatton Ruins revisited: modernist conceptions of heritage 189(12) Brigitte Desrochers Part 4 Narratives of domesticity 201(52) Creating space out of text: perspectives on domestic Regency architecture or Three essays on the picturesque 203(24) Isabel Allen Tenuous boundaries: women, domesticity and nationhood in 1930s Turkey 227(16) Gulsum Baydar The meanings of domesticity 243(10) Bart Verschaffel Part 5 Problems of building 253(86) Frank Lloyd Wright and the concrete slab and column 255(32) Leonard K. Eaton Berlage's Beurs -- concept and method 287(28) Jan Molema Invention from war: a circumstantial modernism for Australian architecture 315(24) Philip Goad Julie Willis Part 6 The sociology of architectural practice 339(60) What Vitruvius said 341(20) Richard Patterson `Primitive wisdom' and modern architecture 361(18) Felicity Scott The networks of tropical architecture 379(20) Hannah le Roux Part 7 Identity and the appropriation of place 399(84) Identity and memory in the modern metropolis: elements for a discussion. The case of Sao Paulo 401(18) Elisabetta Andreoli Hearth and cloth: dwelling practice and production in Eastern Tibet 419(20) Suzanne Ewing The classical model of the Spanish-American colonial city 439(14) Rene Martinez Lemoine From shikumen to new-style: a rereading of lilong housing in modern Shanghai 453(30) Chunlan Zhao Index 483