Canadian Centre for Architecture

Foreword . . 6
Preface . . 8

1. Overture: The Test of War . . 11
2. Architects and Cities Go Off to War . . 21
3. Total Mobilisation, from the Factory to the Kitchen . . 55
4. Producing Production and Workers' Housing . . 81
5. The Menace from the Air . . 141
6. Camouflage, or the Temptation of the Invisible . . 187
7. Architects and Bombs, from Bunkers to Napalm . . 221
8. Mobility and Prefabrication . . 251
9. Macro and Micro, or the Issue of Scale . . 281
10. On the Information Front . . 321
11. Alternative Futures: Occupation and Reconstruction . . 353
12. Recycling, Recalling, Forgetting . . 383

Index of places and projects . . 424
Index of people and institutions . . 426
Bibliography . . 435
Acknowledgements . . 443
Copyrights and photography credits . . 444
Lenders . . 446