Functionalism today / Theodor W. Adorno -- Architecture ; Slaughterhouse ; Museum / Georges Bataille -- On some motifs in Baudelaire ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin -- Formative education, engineering form, ornament / Ernst Bloch -- The hotel lobby ; On employment agencies : the construction of a space / Siegfried Kracauer -- Bridge and door ; The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Poetics of space (extract) / Gaston Bachelard -- Building, dwelling, thinking ; -- Poetically man dwells -- ; The origin of the work of art (extracts) ; Art and space / Martin Heidegger -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The production of space (extracts) / Henri Lefebvre -- The end of modernity, the end of the project? ; Ornament/monument / Gianni Vattimo -- Semiology and the urban ; The Eiffel Tower / Roland Barthes -- Function and sign : the semiotics of architecture ; How an exposition exposes itself / Umberto Eco -- The Beaubourg-effect : implosion and deterrence ; America / Jean Baudrillard -- Modern and postmodern architecture / Jürgen Habermas -- The cultural logic of late capitalism ; The constraints of postmodernism (extract) ; Is space political? / Fredric Jameson -- Domus and the megalopolis / Jean-François Lyotard -- Eisenmann and the housing of tradition / Andrew Benjamin -- Attacks of the castle / Hélène Cixous -- Postscript on the societies of control ; City/state (with Félix Guattari) / Gilles Deleuze -- Architecture where the desire may live (interview) ; Point de folie : maintenant l'architecture ; Why Peter Eisenman writes such good books / Jacques Derrida -- Of other spaces : Utopias and Heterotopias ; Panopticism (extract) ; Space, knowledge and power (interview conducted with Paul Rabinow) / Michel Foucault -- The overexposed city / Paul Virilio.