Introduction: Diagrams. Introduction: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture ( Mark Garcia ). Part I: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture. Part I: Diagrams. Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation ( Anthony Vidler ). Scientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram ( Hyungmin Pai ). Urban Diagrams and Urban Modelling ( David Grahame Shane ). Dummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture ( Robert E. Somol ). Diagram: an Original Scene of Writing ( Peter Eisenman ). Poetics of the Ideogram ( Leon van Schaik ). Diagrams in Multisensory and Phenomenological Architecture ( Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka ). The Hammer and the Song ( Sanford Kwinter ). Part II: Multidisciplinary Dimensions of the Diagrams of Architecture. Part II: Diagrams. Diagramming the Interior ( Mark Taylor ). Diagrams in Landscape Architecture ( Jacky Bowring and Simon Swaffield ). Inhabiting the Forest of Symbols: From Diagramming the City to the City as Diagram ( Brian McGrath ). Diagrams and their Future in Urban Design ( Peter A. Hall ). Diagrams in Structural Engineering: Applied Diagram - Engineering Precision ( Hanif Kara ). Spatial Notation and the Magical Operations of Collage in the Post-Digital Age ( Neil Spiller ). Part III: Architects of the Diagrams of Architecture. Part III: Diagrams. The Diagrams of Bernard Tschumi ( Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects, interviewed by Mark Garcia ). The Diagram and the Becoming Unmotivated of the Sign ( Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects ). Expressive Abstractions: The Diagrams of Will Alsop ( Will Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia ). Diagrams ( Ben van Benkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio ). Diagramming the Contemporary: OMA's Little Helper in the Quest for the New ( Wouter Deen and Udo Garrtizmann, OMA ). Between Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams, Drawings and Graphs ( Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Foreign Office Architects ). Metacity/Datatown ( Winy Maas, MVRDV ). Atlas of Novel Tectonics ( Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto ). Parametric Diagrams ( Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects ). NOX Diagrams ( Lars Spuybroek, NOX ). Part IV: Epilogues. Part IV: Diagrams. Architectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time ( Charles Jencks ). Epilogue (A Beginning of Other Diagrams of Architecture and the Futures of the Diagrams of Architecture) ( Mark Garcia ). Select Bibliography. Index.