Jorge Silvetti is cofounder of Machado Silvetti Associates, based in Boston and Buenos Aires, and the Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at Harvard Graduate School of Design.Nicolás Delgado Alcega is a principal with Rome-based architecture firm Alliata / Alcega, a founding editor of Harvard Graduate School of Design’s journal Pairs, and a lecturer at the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture in Seattle.

• Foreword 9 Nicolás Delgado AlcegaPrologue 15 Buenos Aires: Twelve Scenes from My YouthJorge SilvettiBerkeley 49 Architecture: The Question of Method with Alfredo Thiermann1. Times of Cultural Awakening2. From Systems Theory to Structuralism3. Architecture as Material Culture4. Scholarship and the Architect97 The Beauty of Shadows (1977)Harvard 117 Architecture: The Emergence of Discourse with Mark Lee1. The GSD After Josep Lluís Sert2. The GSD Under Gerald M. McCue3. Schools of Thought and Common Projects4. Architecture in the Research University167 On Realism in Architecture (1978)190 The Presence of the Past (1980) with Rodolfo Machado194 Representation and Creativity in Architecture: The Pregnant Moment (1982)205 Perspective and the Envious Longing for the Renaissance (1984)Sicily 215 Architecture: The Reconception of History with Erika Naginski1. The Strata of Culture2. The Ruin and the Creative Process3. The Hereafter of Typology4. The Architect and the Historian273 Interactive Realms: The Bridge of San Francesco and the Palazzo Sant’Elia (1992)281 The Bridge and the Palazzo: Urban Interventions and Social Representation (1992)South America 299 Architecture: The Purview of the Social with Elisa Silva1. Cultural Forces That Invite Architecture2. The Autonomy of Architecture3. The Inevitability of Form Giving341 Afterword to Unprecedented Realism (1995) with Rodolfo Machado345 The Muses Are Not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture (2003)360 Block That Metaphor! (2014)Boston 369 Architecture: The Making of a Practice with Nader Tehrani1. The Emergence of a Cultural Practice2. A Theory That Inhabits Practice3. Sensibility and Authorial History413 Vestiges of Cities Without Evil: The Case of the Territorio Guaraní (2014) with Graciela Silvestri427 TYPE: Architecture’s Elusive Obsession and the Rituals of an Impasse (2017)445 On Perspective, Anamorphosis, and Repositionings (2021) with Nicolás Delgado Alcega457 Biographical Timeline469 Complete Writings473 Contributor Biographies475 Image Credits