Machine generated contents note: Task of Architecture -- Functions -- Functions versus Capacities -- Substantial versus Subsidiary Functions -- Tectonics -- Categorization of Function-types -- Problem-types (Function-types) vs Solution-types (Archetypes) -- Patterns of Decomposition/Composition -- Functional Reasoning via Action-artefact Networks -- Limitations of Functional Expertise -- Order via Organization and Articulation -- Organization and Articulation: Historical and Systematic -- Architectural Order -- Definition of Organization for Contemporary Architecture -- Complicated, Complex, Organized, Ordered -- Organization -- Relating Spatial to Social Organization -- Territorialization and Integration -- Systems, Configurations, Organizations -- Supplementing Architecture with a Science of Configuration -- Set Theory -- Harnessing Network Theory -- Excursion: Network Theory -- City is not a Tree -- Space Syntax: Concepts and Tools of Analysis -- Space Syntax: Theoretical Claims -- From Organization to Articulation: Taking Account of Cognition -- Articulation -- Articulation vs Organization -- Problem of Orientation and the Problematic of Legibility -- Articulate vs Inarticulate Organization -- Articulation as the Core Competency of Architecture -- Generalizing the Concept of Function -- Phenomenological vs the Semiological Dimension of Architecture -- Phenomenological Dimension of Architectural Articulation -- Perceptual Constitution of Objects and Spaces -- Cognitive Principles of Gestalt-Perception -- Parametric Figuration -- Semiological Dimension of Architectural Articulation -- Built Works of Architecture as Framing Communications -- Analogy: Language and Built Environment as Media of Communication -- Signs as Communications -- Territory as Fundamental Semiological Unit -- Saussure's Insight: Language as System of Correlated Differences -- Extra-Semiological Demands on Architecture's Medial Substrate -- Syntagmatic vs Paradigmatic Relations -- Prolegomenon to Architecture's Semiological Project -- Scope of Architecture's Signified -- Composite Character of the Architectural Sign -- Absolute and Relative Arbitrariness -- Natural and Artificial Semiosis -- Designing Architecture's Semiological Project -- Cognitive and Attentional Conditions of Architectural Communication -- Speculation: Expanding the Expressive Power of Architectural Sign Systems -- Semiological Project and the General Project of Architectural Order -- Semiological Project in Relation to the Organizational and the Phenomenological Project -- Relationship between Architectural Languages and Architectural Styles -- Requisite Variety of Architectural Articulation -- Design Process -- Contemporary Context and Aim of Design Process Theory -- Towards a Contemporary Design Process Reflection and Design Methodology -- Method vs Process -- Design Process as Problem-solving Process -- Design Process as Information-processing Process -- Structure of Information-processing Systems -- Programmes -- Task Environment and its Representation as Problem Space -- Problem Solving as Search in a State Space -- Planning Spaces -- Heuristic versus Exhaustive Problem-solving Methods -- Differentiating Classical, Modern and Contemporary Processes -- Problem Definition and Problem Structure -- Wicked Problems -- Structure of Ill-structured Problems -- Information-processing Model for Information-rich Design Processes -- Rationality: Retrospective and Prospective -- Rational in Retrospect: Observing Innovative Design Practice -- Prospective Rationality -- Processing the Three Task Dimensions of Architecture -- Modelling Spaces -- Architecture and Society -- World Architecture within World Society -- Autonomy vs Authority -- Architecture's Conception of Society -- Crisis of Modernism's Conception of Society -- Social Systems Theory and the Theory of Architectural Autopoiesis -- Architecture in Relation to other Societal Subsystems -- Architecture In Relation to the Economic System -- Economy and the Design-Principle of Economy of Means -- Economic Conditions of Architectural Discourse -- Architecture and Education -- Architecture as Profession and Professional Career -- Authorship, Reputation, Oeuvre -- Centre-periphery Differentiation within Architecture -- Absorption of Uncertainty -- Architectural Design Studio as Organization -- Built Environment as Primordial Condition of Society -- Built Environment As Indispensable Substrate of Social Evolution -- From Spatial Order to Conceptual Order -- Beauty and the Evolution of Concepts of Order -- Architecture and Politics -- Is Political Architecture Possible? -- Political Vacuum -- Normal vs Revolutionary Politics -- Theorizing the Relationship between Architecture and Politics -- Incommensurability of Architecture and Politics -- Architecture Responds to Political Agendas -- Three Scenarios -- Service Provisions Between Architecture and Politics -- Architecture Adapts to Political Development -- Modern Architecture Calls on Politics -- ABC Group: Political Agitation Within Architecture -- Vicissitudes of Political Polarization -- Limitations of Critical Practice in Architecture -- General Political Critique and Macro-political Ambitions -- Architecture's ̀Micro-Political' Agency: Manipulating Non-political Power -- Who Controls the Power-distributing Capacity of Design? -- Public Competitions As Structural Coupling between Architecture and Politics -- Self-descriptions of Architecture -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Reference as Self-reference -- Levels of Self-reference -- Necessity of Reflection: Architectural Theory as Reflection Theory -- Continuity vs Consistency -- Categorical vs Variable Structures of Communication -- Classic Treatises -- Alberti's De re aedificatoria -- Durand's Precis des lecons d'architecture -- Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture -- Autopoiesis of Architecture -- Architectural Historiography -- History of Architecture's Autonomization and Internal Structuration -- History of Architectural Styles as Responses to Epochal Shifts in the Societal Environment -- Architectural Criticism -- Parametricism -- The Parametric Paradigm and the Formation of a New Style -- Parametricism as Epochal Style -- Historiographical Sketch: The Epochal Alignment of Styles -- Unified Style for the 21st Century -- Maturity of Parametricism -- Polarized Confrontation: Parametricism versus Minimalism -- Styles as Design Research Programmes -- Parametricist Research Programme -- Conceptual Definition of Parametricism -- Operational Definition of Parametricism: The Defining Heuristics of Parametricism -- Genealogy of the Parametricist Heuristics -- Analogies: Emulating Natural Systems -- Agendas Advancing

Parametricism -- Agenda of Ecological Sustainability -- Parametricist vs Modernist Urbanism -- Simple Order, Disorder, Complex Order -- Implementing Parametricist Urbanism -- Elegance -- Epilogue -- The Design of a Theory -- Theoretical Foundation: Communication Theory vs Historical Materialism? -- Theory of Architectural Autopoiesis as Unified Theory of Architecture -- Notes on the Architecture of the Theory -- Theory as the Result of Contingent Theory Design Decisions.