Acknowledgments List of Contributors Foreword, Adrian Forty (University College London, UK) Introduction, Mark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part 1: Grey Zones 1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India, Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA) 2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes, Meltem OE. Gurel (Yasar University, Turkey) 3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience, Louisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA) 4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore, Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) 5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham's Freeway Ecology, Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part 2: Dissolved Distinctions 6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674, Panagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the Architectural Magazine (1834-38), Anne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium, Fredie Flore (KU Leuven, Belgium) 9. Disaster Relief and 'Universal Shelters': Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976, Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilian Sanchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK) Part 3: Uneasy Difference 10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations, Alistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK) 11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.'s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment, Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA) 12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History, Jane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK) 13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil, Livia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden) Afterword, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, UK) Index