Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

By the time he was 40, architect Dominique Perrault had already designed France's important new national library, the last of the 'great projects' undertaken by president Francois Mitterrand. Since then he counts the velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin, the Aplix factory near Nantes and the Marinsky II in Saint Petersburg among his many projects. Paradoxically, although a prolific international designer and builder, he advocates for the 'disappearance of architecture'! Committed to 'concepts' and architecture as manifesto, Perrault excels in games of masks. For him, appearance, disappearance, derealization, dematerialization, crossings and lightening speed make up architecture's very substance. His architecture is one assembled from time, space, tension and energy, which this book attempts to decipher and unveil. Book jacket.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Vite speed: Eloge de la fulgurance / In praise of lightening speed (p. 8)
• 2 Strategie strategy: L'art et la maniere / Art and style (p. 36)
• 3 Manifeste manifesto: Le velodrome et la piscine olympique de Berlin / The velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin (p. 60)
• 4 Rien nothing: Geometrie dans l'espace / Geometry in space (p. 80)
• 5 Vibration vibration: La maille metallique / Metallic mesh (p. 108)
• 6 Capture capture: Nature/culture / Nature/culture (p. 130)
• 7 Fusion fusion: Ombres et lumieres / Light and shadow (p. 156)
• 8 Tension tension: La loi des corps / The law of bodies (p. 182)
• 9 Scansion scansion: L'usine Aplix / The Aplix factory (p. 208)
• 10 Loin far: Go east, young man / Go east, young man (p. 228)
• 11 Variation variation: Sur deux themes / On two themes (p. 260)