FOREWORD THE INDISPENSIBLE FAILURE by Nader Tehrani INTRODUCTION THE ARCHITECTURE OF FULL-SCALE MOCKUPS / FROM REPRESENTATION TO REALITY CHAPTER 1 AN ALCHEMY OF BRICKS The Teleton Childrens' Rehabilitation Center + Quincho Tia Coral Solano Benitez and Gabinete de Arquitectura Asuncion, Paraguay CHAPTER 2 DRAWING WITHOUT PAPER + BUILDING WITHOUT BUILDINGS / LARGE REPRESENTATIONS IN THE FIELD COPPER HOUSE II, THE HOUSE WITH WHITE NET+ SAAT RASTA BIJOY JAIN/STUDIO MUMBAI, MUMBAI INDIA CHAPTER 3 THE IMPOSSIBLY REAL / IN PURSUIT OF NEW TRANSLATIONS THE PHYSICAL MOTIVATIONS OF ROUND ROOM + LA VOUTE DE LEFEVRE MATTER DESIGN / BRANDON CLIFFORD + WES MCGEE CHAPTER 4 UNPREDICTABLE PETRIFICATIONS / THE UNNATURAL FORMS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF A CONCRETE MUSEUM THE PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI, Miami Florida, USA Herzog & de Meuron, Basel Switzerland CHAPTER 5 MASSIVE IMPRESSIONS / THE MATERIALS OF REPRESENTATION THE CITE DE L'OCEAN ET DU SURF MUSEUM, Biarritz, France STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS CHAPTER 6 ACCLIMATED TRANSFORMATIONS THE SURPRISING MATERIALITIES OF THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS AND ITS SURROUNDINGS Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa Italy Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA CHAPTER 7 MOCKED-ILLUMINATIONS / THE TRANSFORMED ENVIRONMENTS REFRACTED IN THE COMPLEX SURFACES OF 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER SEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY, USA, 2009 SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL + JAMES CARPENTER DESIGN ASSOCIATES.