Includes index of designers.

1. Experimenting with structure. -- Frameworks -- Deconstruction -- Blocks & modules -- Stacks and towers -- Transformers -- Parametrics. 2. Furniture as micro-architecture. -- Fusion -- Space organizers -- Room in a room -- In-built -- Landscapes. 3. Synthesis. -- Macro-furniture -- Architectural shelving -- Partitions -- Plug-ins & add-ons -- Building blocks -- Multi-scale.

Presents a wave of designers who are applying architectural techniques to create innovative new furnishing options, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes.--