Origins of Architecture

PART I The Origins of Traditional Architecture
1 The Practical Approach: "Sheltering"
2 The Mythical Approach: "Modeling"
3 The Invention of the City: "Founding"
4 The Commemorative Tradition: "Remembering"
5 The Patterns of Traditional Architecture

PART II Modernism and Radical Discontinuity
6 The Proposition: The New Age
7 The Implication: The Invention of Continuous Space
8 The Application: Le Corbusier's Five Points
9 The Solution: The International Style
10 The Dark Side of Modernism
11 Apocalyptic Modernism

PART III After Modernism
12 Post-Modernism
13 Deconstruction and Emptiness
14 Back to the Beginning: Living in Harmony with the Land

Conclusion
Footnotes
Bibliography