Machine generated contents note: introduction to the series saul ostrow -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- practice vs. project -- essays stan allen -- drawings -- constructing with lines: on projection -- mapping the unmappable: on notation -- plotting traces: on process -- buildings -- mies's theater of effects: the new national gallery -- the guggenheim refigured: the solomon r. guggenheim museum -- le corbusier and modernist movement: the carpenter center for the visual arts -- media -- ex novo. -- architecture and photography -- terminal velocities: the computer in the design studio -- postscript diana agrest -- representation as articulation -- between theory and practice -- notes -- image credits