1 Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets 9
2 A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture 31
3 Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes 61
4 Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody 101
5 A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space 141
6 Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light 181
7 Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects 221
8 All You Need Is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space 273
9 Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era 307
10 Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures 343
11 Of Dabblers and Virtuosos 387
Notes 395
Acknowledgments 419
Index 421