NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Introduction: The Golden State California's Architectural Soul -- Going to California -- Disrupting the Paradigm -- Recent Developments -- Fabricating Housing -- Colour and Exuberance -- Note -- Backlot Suburbia: A California Story -- Bullets to Ploughshares -- Wallflowers -- Beach Boys -- Notes -- Californian, The Third Way -- The Polycentric Vanguard -- Diasporic Futures -- Notes -- Material Imageability: The Architecture of Façades and Envelopes -- California Zeitgeist -- Oversized Canvas -- Shapeshifting

Google Residence -- On the Spectrum -- Notes -- Printing the Picture Plane: Imaging Scales Up -- Mobile Mutables -- Views from the Field -- Notes -- California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future -- Saving General Sherman -- The Paradox of Paradise -- Architecture's Debt, Fire's Future and the Wisdom of Trees -- Postscript: Mike Davis on California Burning -- Notes -- Do Dream Landscapes Have Earthquakes? -- Sequence -- Simultaneity -- Superposition -- Simulation -- Notes -- Extra-disciplinary Dreams: Journeys Into the Foothills -- The Theorist -- The Designer -- The Artist -- The Beyond

Notes -- The Picture and the Frame: Understanding a Contested Landscape -- Identifying the Frame -- 'Representation is Everything' -- Notes -- A Hands-on Conceptual Rigour: A Multi-scalar Approach -- In the Beginning ... -- LA Connection -- Constructing the Deconstructed -- In from the Cold -- A Creative Milieu -- Notes -- There's Something in the Air: Authorship, the Hand and the Machine -- Experimental Legacies -- Learning Through Materials -- The Same, But Different -- Singular Positive -- The Shimmer -- Notes -- Housing the Unhoused: Los Angeles Architects Rise to the Challenge

Skid Row and Tent Cities -- Stepping Up to the Plate -- Scaling Up -- Notes -- Skin and Bones: Pushing the Event Horizon -- Weaving a Fata Morgana -- The Choreography of Construction -- Transient Cradles for Alternative Visions -- A California Dream -- Designing for an Unstable World -- In the Mood for Love: Chromophilia Unbound -- Colour Against the Canon -- The Destruction of the Wall (and Floor) -- Forays into Full-Scale Programming -- Sunset on the Horizon -- Notes -- From Another Perspective Morphosis Modelling: A Golden Anniversary -- Microcosmic Metamorphosis -- Modelling for a New Century