Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This seminal book from Architectural Design was originally published in 1993, at a time of crucial change and on the eve of the digital revolution.

It brought together a series of essays that many believe created the favourable environment in which computer-based design could thrive. Considered one of the most influential architecture publications of the 1990s, this book ranks as a classic and in itself is a crucial chapter of history, though one that has been out of print since 1999. This faithful reprinting includes a substantial new introductory essay by Mario Carpo, Head of the Study Centre at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which examines the impact of the original texts and their ongoing significance. Thereafter, the book is true to its original content showcasing projects by ground-breaking architects such as Greg Lynn, Jeffrey Kipnis, Bahram Shirdel, Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• Ten Years of Folding
• Unfolding Folding
• Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple
• The Fold - Leibniz and the Baroque: The Pleats of the Matter
• Folding in Time: The Singularity of Rebstock
• Rebstock Park Masterplan, Frankfurt Germany
• Alteka Office Building, Tokyo Japan
• Center for the Arts, Emory University, Atlanta
• The Points of Space
• The Anhalter Folding
• Towards a New Architecture
• Nara Convention Hall
• Scottish National Heritage: A Living Museum
• Unfolding Architecture
• Out of the Fold
• The Material Fold: Towards a Variable Narrative of Anomalous Topologies
• Bentwood Furniture
• Lewis Residence, Cleveland, Ohio
• IN VER(re* T.GO
• Prefectura Gymnasium
• Stranded Sears Tower
• Croton Aqueduct
• Computer Imaging: Morphing and Architectural Representation
• Interview with Mark Dippe: Terminator 2
• First Interstate Bank Tower: A Note on the Architectonics of Folding