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Contents Introduction iii — v Sebastiano Fabbrini Scanda(Loos): Theatrics and Print Media in the Controversy of the Michaelerplatz Building 2 — 11 372 — 379 AnnMarie Perl Succès de “scandale” and Biblical scandal: Yves Klein’s debut performance of the Anthropometries in 1960 12 — 19 362 — 371 No ra We n d l Uncompromising Reasons for Going West: A Story of Sex and Real Estate, Reconsidered 20 — 33 346 — 361 Austin+Mergold Of the Sacred & the Divine: Subway Sukkah 34 — 45

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Kristen Gaylord The controversy of Peace on Earth : Immaculate Heart College and IBM in 1965 46 — 55 336 — 345 Beatriz Colomina A Slight Nausea: Carlo Mollino 56 — 65 326 — 335 Jackson Davidow Reading The Bostonians in Boston 66 — 75 316 — 325 Doris Sommer Press Here: Cultural Acupuncture and Civic Stimulation 76 — 81 310 — 315 Urbonas Studio Lietuva Cinema I: Pro-Test Lab 82 — 89 NADA A A with Cristina Parreño Architecture and Urbonas Studio Lietuva Cinema II: Modernaus Meno Centras 90 — 101

Mark Jarzombek Leon Battista Alberti and His Somniatic Troubles 102 — 109 300 — 309 Ang Li Raised by Association: Robin Hood Gardens and Its Interpretations 110 — 119 292 — 299 Andrés Jaque Mies in the Basement: The Ordinary Confronts the Exceptional in the Barcelona Pavilions 120 — 127 276 — 278 Didier Faustino Love Songs for Riots 128 — 135 268 — 275 Peter Galison & John May The Revelation of Secrets: Peter Galison and John May on Artifacts of Surveillance, Part I and II 136 — 159 254 — 267 Ruvimbo Moyo Nkandlagate: Only Partial Evidence of Urban African Inequality 160 — 171 244 — 253

Hans van Houwelingen Monument in Commemoration of Prof. Dr. A. de Froe, 1907–1992 172 — 177 236 — 243 Nisa Ari The Purchase on Modernity: The Turkish National Narrative and Osman Hamdi Bey’s The Tortoise Trainer 178 — 187 226 — 235 Jordan Carver On Art Storage and Tax Evasion 188 — 199 210 — 225 fala atelier Revised Pantheon 200 — 209 Andrés Jaque / Of fice for Political Innovation PHANTOM: Mies as Rendered Society 279 — 291 Contributors 381 — 384 Image Credits 385 — 387

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