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Our field, and perhaps every field, is defined by ambition. to know ourselves we have to know ambition. But ambition is far from simple. It is never straightforward, never the singular drive it appears to be. Rather, it is a set of interacting forces in which often the means are mistaken for ends. This issue of Volume on Ambition offers a preliminary map of what has become a landscape of misguided purpose.


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2Science of Ambition 1

3Editorial

Inaba, Jeffrey
4Science of Ambition 2

5Mutations of Fame

Wigley, Mark
9Science of Ambition 3

10Ambition after Celebrity

Levitt, Danielle
14Question for Karim Rashid

C-Lab
16Enjoy the Futures. Interview with Charles Jencks

Inaba, Jeffrey and Benedict Clouette
19Science of Ambition 4

20Fifty Percent: In Defense of Public Relations. Questions for Laura Iloniemi, Lisetta Koe, Nancy Kleppel, Jessica Scaparotti and Elizabeth Kubany

C-Lab
22Conversation with Ben Katz

Inaba, Jeffrey and Harmony Murphy
24The Compromise House

Wrange, Mans / OMBUD
28The Knowledge

Easterling, Keller
30Tomorrow’s Faces, Today’s Ambitions. Archiprix International 2007

Oosterman, Arjen
33Science of Ambition 5

34Micro-scale and Macro Ambition. Interview with Momoyo Kaijima

Inaba, Jeffrey and Benedict Clouette
38Content and Discontent

Bonami, Francesco
41Science of Ambition 6

42What Good Is a Bad Object?

Lavin, Sylvia
47C-Lab Presents: New Names by

Wysocan, Paul
48Yes Man. Interview with Bjarke Ingels

Inaba, Jeffrey
53Science of Ambition 7

54Conversation with Vincent Gallo, Benjamin Bratton and Jeffrey Inaba. A Screenplay

Gallo, Vincent
60Maturing Ambition. Interview with Kevin Roche

Inaba, Jeffrey
66Richard Prince

72Interview with Philip Johnson (Introduction by Kazys Varnelis)

Stern, Robert A.M.
73Science of Ambition 8

74Hedged Ambition

C-Lab
86Give It Away Give It Away Give It Away Now! Souvenirs for a New Germany

Glasl, Sascha
87C-Lab Presents: Breeding Tables

Kram/Weisshaar
88Kazakhstan Alibi

C-Lab
105Science of Ambition 9

106A Conversation Between Shohei Shigematsu and Mohsen Mostafavi with Margaret Arbanas and Benedict Clouette

Clouette, Benedict
111Science of Ambition 10

112Ambition Then and Now. Interview with Thom Mayne

Inaba, Jeffrey
116Remembering

Inaba, Jeffrey
117Still Ambitious After All These Years. Interview with Jerry Brown

Inaba, Jeffrey
120Mediagenics. Interview with Elizabeth Diller

Inaba, Jeffrey and Benedict Clouette
121Opportunity. Interview with Alejandro Zaera Polo

Inaba, Jeffrey
128Architects Before the Make-up

Eberle, Todd
134Tonal Ambition. Brian Roettinger’s design for the Theremin

Read, Martha
137C-Lab Presents: Theremin Sans

Roettinger, Brian
138Richard Holbrooke, Architect

C-Lab
144Model Urban Development and Modeling Urban Development

Jeremijenko, Natalie
148Ambitious Acts

Aitken, Doug
152Ambition

Safran, Yehuda E.

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