Little more than a series of diagrams applied to plans and elevations of two Terragni buildings with excessive but uninformative commentary by Eisenman. This book attempts to justify the building as a `text' that can be read if, like Eisenman, you can only see buildings and spaces as intellectual constructs rather than the material, physical phenomena which all structures and their environments do become. Sure, ideas are important as generators, but they are not the primary purpose of architecture nor its intended end result. They never were and never will be.In the introduction, Eisenman notes that he started this work over 40 years ago. He goes on to say that it is a work he mightn't have written today. Indeed looking at the simplistic way in which he has reduced a building merely to a series of diagrams, one can't help agreeing with him and feeling that this monumentally superficial book should never have been published at all.