The New Architectural Pragmatism

Introduction: Accept, Resist, or Inflect? Architecture and Contemporary Capitalism vii William S. Saunders A Scientific Autobiography, 1982-2004: Madrid, Harvard, OMA, the AA, Yokohama, the Globe 1(21) Alejandro Zaera-Polo Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism 22(12) Robert Somol Sarah Whiting Starck Speaks: Politics, Pleasure, and Play 34(15) Philippe Starck P.S./P.C.: On ``Starck Speaks'' 49(5) K. Michael Hays No More Dreams? The Passion for Reality in Recent Dutch Architecture... and Its Limitations 54(21) Roemer van Toorn No More Tabula Rasa: Progressive Architectural Practices in England 75(14) Lucy Bullivant Not Unlike Life Itself: Landscape Strategy Now 89(5) James Corner On Not Being Governed 94(7) Dave Hickey Stocktaking 2004: Questions about the Present and Future of Design 101(35) Stan Allen Hal Foster Kenneth Frampton ``Criticality'' and Its Discontents 136(14) George Baird Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism 150(12) Reinhold Martin Design Will Save the World! On Bruce Mau's Massive Change and the Mediatization of Culture 162(14) Robert Levit Evonne Levy The Muses Are Not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture 176 Jorge Silvetti Contributors