Noise Orders : Jazz, Improvisation, And Architecture

Acknowledgments ix Speculative Leaps xi 1. Compositional Imperatives: Mondrian and Boogie-woogie 1(32) 2. What Is the Body Supposed to Be Doing? 33(28) John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk 3. Now's the Time: Temporalities of Louis Armstrong and Le Corbusier 61(28) 4. Function, Flexibility, and Improvisation: The AACM and Mies van der Rohe 89(30) Conclusion: Diagrams, Conduction, and the Contemporary City 119(14) Notes 133(20) Index 153