Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bar, surface, body, and space are the fundamental elements of the design process. Every form, however complex, may be understood as a variation of them. And underlying every concrete design is a design methodology that can be analyzed, taught, and learned as a transformation of these four categories.
In this sense, Transformation represents a foundational work for architects, designers, and lay people with an interest in cultural history: the unrivaled grammar of design. With a systematic aim and progressively increasing complexity, it unfolds the creative potential of these categories with succinct texts, uniform drawings, and a broad array of examples from architecture, design, and art.
But Transformation also occupies an exceptional position as a physical book: the layout makes it especially easy to compare and combine different design steps, and the separate binding of individual groups of pages makes doing so even easier. The result is a kind of construction set that invites the reader to play as well as research. By generating new "links", he or she is able to use a limited set of fundamental elements to discover an unlimited and ever-changing array of new design possibilities.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Imprint (p. II)
• Introduction (p. VI)
• Illustration Credits (p. X)
• Index of Names (p. XVI)
• Subject Index (p. XVIII)
• 1.0 Bar and Lattice (p. 1)
• 1.1 Bar (p. 1)
• Fundamentals (p. 2)
• Definitions (p. 2)
• Arrangements (p. 4)
• Combinations (p. 5)
• Cross Sections and Connections (p. 6)
• Cross Sections (p. 6)
• Combinations (p. 7)
• Formal Variations (p. 8)
• Connections (p. 9)
• Right-Angled Connections (p. 10)
• Variations of Position (p. 11)
• Bar-Surface Connections (p. 15)
• Intersections (p. 16)
• Connections (p. 22)
• Modulated Connections (p. 22)
• Self-Contained Connections (p. 25)
• Connections (p. 28)
• Three-Dimensional Assemblies (p. 30)
• Nodal, Surface, Kinematic Connections (p. 34)
• Nodal Connections (p. 34)
• Clamp Connections (p. 38)
• Bar-Surface Connections (p. 39)
• Kinematic Connections (p. 42)
• 1.2 Lattice (p. 44)
• Fundamentals (p. 44)
• Definitions (p. 44)
• Classification (p. 46)
• Structure (p. 50)
• Variants (p. 56)
• Cubic Lattices (p. 56)
• Isotopic Lattices (p. 57)
• Variants (p. 58)
• Heterogeneous Lattices (p. 60)
• Assemblies (p. 63)
• Colored Layerings (p. 64)
• Framing Elements (p. 65)
• Colored Lattices (p. 66)
• Infills and Curves (p. 68)
• Infills (p. 68)
• Curved Lattices (p. 73)
• Warped Lattices (p. 74)
• Kinematic Lattices (p. 76)
• Kinematic Lattices (p. 76)
• Kinematic: Cubic Lattices (p. 80)
• Folding Lattices (p. 84)
• Expanding Lattices (p. 88)
• Agglomeration (p. 89)
• 2.0 Surface (p. 1)
• Fundamentals (p. 2)
• Definition (p. 2)
• Networks and Symmetry Operations (p. 3)
• Surface Networks (p. 3)
• Prismatic Surfaces (p. 10)
• Combinations of Surfaces (p. 11)
• Symmetry Operations (p. 12)
• Rotational Symmetries (p. 14)
• Surface Geometry (p. 16)
• Modified Surfaces (p. 18)
• Curved Surfaces (p. 24)
• Growth and Assemblies (p. 28)
• Growing Surfaces (p. 28)
• Surface Assemblies (p. 30)
• Connections and Intersections (p. 34)
• Surface Connections (p. 34)
• Surface Arrangements (p. 37)
• Intersecting Surfaces (p. 38)
• Additions (p. 42)
• Added Surfaces (p. 42)
• Added and Modified Surfaces (p. 43)
• Modified Surfaces (p. 50)
• Connections and Arrangements (p. 52)
• Surface-Bar Connections (p. 52)
• Detachable Surface Connections (p. 54)
• Surface Arrangements (p. 55)
• Membrane Surfaces, Surface Arrangements, and Kinematic Surfaces (p. 62)
• Coordinate Systems (p. 62)
• Membrane Surfaces (p. 64)
• Combinations of Surfaces (p. 66)
• Geometric Sequences of Surfaces (p. 70)
• Kinematic Surfaces: Definition (p. 72)
• Notation of Movement (p. 74)
• Kinematic Surfaces (p. 76)
• 3.0 Body (p. 91)
• Fundamentals (p. 92)
• Definition (p. 92)
• Packings (p. 93)
• Articulation (p. 94)
• Polyinedrons, Regular and Semiregular Rotational Bodies (p. 96)
• Sections and Radii (p. 97)
• Sections (p. 97)
• Methodical Transformations (p. 98)
• Concave and Convex Sections (p. 100)
• Radii and Sections (p. 101)
• Radii (p. 104)
• Growing Radii (p. 105)
• Cone, Cube, Axes (p. 106)
• Conical Bodies (p. 106)
• Cube (p. 107)
• Axially Oriented Bodies (p. 108)
• Nonredundant Bodies (p. 110)
• Peripheral Transformation (p. 111)
• System Atics (p. 112)
• Systematic Development (p. 112)
• Systematic Articulation (p. 114)
• Symmetries (p. 115)
• Symmetries (p. 115)
• Bilateral Expansion (p. 116)
• Symmetrical Rows (p. 117)
• Symmetrical Sections (p. 118)
• Packings (p. 120)
• Close Packings (p. 120)
• Polymorphous Packings (p. 125)
• Axisymmetric Packings (p. 126)
• Packed Elements (p. 129)
• Adjustable Packings (p. 132)
• Packings: Lattice Formations (p. 134)
• Colored Polyhedron Packings (p. 135)
• Layered Packings (p. 137)
• Bilateral Packings (p. 138)
• Intersections (p. 140)
• Permutations (p. 144)
• Kinematic Edge Assemblies (p. 148)
• Cylinders and Transformations of Cylinders (p. 156)
• Rotational Bodies and Torus (p. 166)
• Rotational Bodies (p. 166)
• Torus (p. 168)
• Cone and Sphere (p. 171)
• Transformations of Cones (p. 171)
• Transformations of Spheres (p. 172)
• Sphere Packings (p. 177)
• 4.0 Space (p. 91)
• Fundamentals (p. 92)
• Definition (p. 92)
• Floor Area (p. 93)
• Spatial Density (p. 96)
• Methods of Layering Space (p. 97)
• Bars in Space (p. 98)
• Lattices in Space (p. 104)
• Lattices in Space (p. 104)
• Virtual Lattices (p. 107)
• Systems of Wide Spans (p. 114)
• Cable Nets (p. 116)
• Kinematic Structures (p. 117)
• Typologies (p. 118)
• Lattices: Staggered Recession (p. 120)
• Lattices: Double Layered (p. 121)
• Bodies and Surfaces in Space (p. 122)
• Bodies in Space (p. 122)
• Surfaces in Space (p. 123)
• Spaces of Variable Size (p. 134)
• Bodies in Space (p. 138)
• Color in Space (p. 140)
• Graphic Articulation (p. 142)
• Organization of Space (p. 144)
• Opening Up of Space (p. 148)
• Plastic Articulations of Space (p. 150)
• Typologies of Space (p. 162)