Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents Page -- 1 In Retrospect -- 2 Leone Battista Alberti or The Ten Books on Architecture: From the Beautiful to the Ornamental -- On Design and Matter -- In the Cause of Perfection: On Drawings and Models -- The Ethics of Convenience: On Tyrants and Kings -- Opinions and Judgments: On the Beautiful and the Ugly-With Pleasure and Disgust -- On the Ornamental and the Theoretical -- 3 Marc-Antoine Laugier or An Essay on Architecture: From the True to the Supplemental -- Transformations
On Cause and Effect -- The Lesson and the Gift -- On the True and the Beautiful -- On Origination and Substitution -- On the Essential and the Inconsequential -- The Aftermath -- 4 John Ruskin or The Seven Lamps of Architecture: From Incorporation to Dissolution -- On Laws and Lights -- On the Gift With/Out Return -- On Truth and Deception -- On Life and Death, by Analogy -- On Power and Awe -- On Pleasure and Disgust -- On the Borderline -- The Assimilation -- 5 The In/Terminable Return -- The Theory's Predicament -- Index
