Early voices -- Capital cities, alternative schools -- Profile: Claude Parent -- Paradigms shifting -- The Russian avant-garde -- New kinds of space -- Architecture as a cultural practice -- Constructing alternative space -- Drawing, dwelling, and phenomenology -- Profile: Lebbeus Woods -- Open systems -- Urban space -- The linguistic turn: structuralism, poststructuralism -- Profile: Manfred Wolff-Plottegg -- Computing complexity -- Landscapes of digital invention -- The avant-garde on the world stage