Landform building : architecture's new terrain / edited by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade.

Includes index.

From the biological to the geological / Stan Allen -- Between geology and politics: a debate / Iñaki Ábalos, Stan Allen, Michael Maltzan, Vicente Guallart, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Nader Tehrani, Mario Weiss, Michael Manfredi, Sarah Whiting; moderated by Mirko Zardini -- Seeming seamless / Mirko Zardini -- Form: artificial mountains : Geological form / Stan Allen ; Found ice: Berlin, August 2000 / Tacita Dean ; Biblioteca Expaña / Giancarlo Mazzanti and Architects ; Museo Territorio de las Migraciones / Mansilla+Tuñon Arquitectos ; The mountain / BIG ; Five questions / Bjarke Ingels interviewed by Stan Allen and Marc McQuade ; On mountains: scalable and unscalable / Michael Jakob -- The Great Rock / Péter Kis, Miklós Persányi, and Márta Szabon -- Scale: megaform : The megaform revisited / Stan Allen ; Visual scandals / Tsunehisa Kimura ; Vanke Center / Steven Holl Architects ; Gwanggyo Pier Lakeside Park / SAA Stan Allen Architect ; Ewha Women's University / Dominique Perrault Architecture ; Megaform as urban landscape / Kenneth Frampton ; Discussion: Stan Allen, Kenneth Frampton, and Hashim Sarkis -- The Vertical Park and Spina Tower / Iñaki Ábalos -- Atmosphere: vast interiors : Nature in the plural / Stan Allen ; Alpine landscapes / Walter Niedermayr ; Kait Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Junya.Ishigami+Associates ; Hormonorium / Philippe Rahm ; Teshima Art Museum / Office of Ryue Nishizawa ; The vast and the empty / Reyner Banham -- Lonar Crater: Adam Maloof and Situ Studio -- Process: fabricating terrain : Matters of surface / Stan Allen ; Scanning double negative / Chris Taylor ; Villa Moda / Office DA ; Mashouf Performing Arts Center / Michael Maltzan ; Ghent Forum for Music, Dance and Visual Culture / Toyo Ito and Associates, Architects ; Organize/optimize/simplify/materialize / Fabian Scheurer interviewed by Marc McQuade ; Engineering the EPFL Rolex Learning Center / Bollinger + Grohmann -- The architectural reconstruction of nature / David Gissen -- Landform genealogy.