Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Accept, resist, or inflect? Architecture and contemporary capitalism / William S. Saunders -- A scientific autobiography, 1982-2004 : Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokohama, the globe / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Notes around the Doppler effect and other moods of modernism / Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting -- Starck speaks : politics, pleasure, and play / Philippe Starck -- P.S./P.C. : on " Starck speaks" / K. Michael Hays -- No more dreams? The passion for reality in recent Dutch architecture...and its limitations / Roemer van Toorn -- No more tabula rasa : progressive architectural practices in England / Lucy Bullivant -- Not unlike life itself : landscape strategy now / James Corner -- On not being governed / Dave Hickey -- Stocktaking 2004 : questions about the present and future of design / Stan Allen, Hal Foster, and Kenneth Frampton -- "Criticality" and its discontents / George Baird -- Critical of what? Toward a utopian realism / Reinhold Martin -- Design will save the world! On Bruce Mau's Massive change and the mediatization of culture / Robert Levit and Evonne Levy -- The muses are not amused : pandemonium in the house of architecture / Jorge Silvetti.