Contents

Alberto Asor Rosa, Manfredo Tafuri, or, Humanism Revisited

Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Difficult Whole

Martin Bressani, Observations on Architectural Biology: The Gen(H)ome Project

Thomas de Monchaux, A Hard and Lifeless Matter: Notes on Zaha Hadid at the Guggenheim

Edward Eigen, "[F]rom so simple a beginning . . . "

Massimo Scolari, Crossing Architecture

Peter Sloterdijk, Foam City

Michael Stanton, Heavy Matters: Beirut, War, and Real Estate

Julian Rose, Resisting the Ruin

Zoe Ryan, A Conversation with Mary Miss

Letters from Mario Carpo and Charles Jenckson

PLUS: On Designing a Crowd . . . On the End of an Era . . . On a Greener Zone . . . On Little Reunions . . . On Log . . . On Spray-on Architecture . . .