The essays in this collection focus on crucial ethical concerns largely absent from the practice of architecture during the last two centuries. The contributors are aware of a crisis in our culture's concepts of architecture and hope to ensure a greater future relevance for the discipline.

Anamorphosis has raised crucial questions for architectural representation since the seventh century when epistemological conditions for modern thought and architecture were first articulated. By manipulating the theory of perspective, anamorphosis revealed potential discontinuity between an object present to perception and its visual appearance, complicating the relationship between building and drawing, and between design and construction. This annotated bibliography includes all known existing sources on anamorphosis, starting with Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks and culminating with works...