Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1 discovery of beton brut with malfacons: the worksite of the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille -- Artificial ground and vision of the landscape -- Patterns of formwork and aggregate size of concrete mixture -- sculptures moulees of the Modulor -- Vibrated concrete cladding panels -- Matroil polychromy on concrete -- invention of the beton brut aesthetic -- ch. 2 Acrobat training: the provocateur of new forms -- Synthesis of plastics arts and ineffable space -- Plastics acoustics: sculptures with Savina -- Sand-casting with Nivola and glass sculptures for Murano -- Mural painting, muralnomad, enameled metal panels -- Landscapes in the heart of Saint-Die and New York -- Color-code polychromy in the Claude et Duval factory -- Polychromy in the restoration of the pan de verre of the Cite de Refuge -- New World of Space and photography, analysis of the artistic form -- project for a laboratory of the synthesis of the major arts -- Chapel at Ronchamp: shaping space by embossing -- Construction of the surfaces gauches -- Photographing ineffable space -- ch. 3 Unites d'Habitation at Reze-Ies-Nantes, Berlin and Briey-en-Foret -- Unite d'Habitation at Reze-les-Nantes, or molecular unit -- Beru walls, or concrete shuttering -- Design of the formwork and sculptures moulees -- Claustra and cladding panels -- Quatrieme mur -- Restoration of wall sectors with cladding panels -- Unite d'Habitation at Berlin: the brise-soleil aesthetic -- Smooth cladding panels: beauty by contrast in crisis -- Formwork in fiber sheets and sculptures moulees with inscriptions -- Unite d'Habitation at Briey-en-Foret: technical evolutions of the formwork for the beton brut -- ch. 4 Chandigarh, or the cosmic vision -- City and the Capitol -- Screens for vision and optical illusions: artificial hills, rows of trees, reflecting pools -- Climate Grid, principles of a biological order -- Bio-aesthetic and Arborisation Grid -- High Court, monument of refrigerating voids -- Beton brut with formwork of wood and metal, and the cement gun -- Brut stones and Latex polychromy -- Tapestries: murals for acoustics -- Secretariat, administrative machine -- Texture, metaphor of functionaries and ministers -- Defects in the metal formwork -- Parliament, the hymn of mankind -- From the acoustic texture of beton brut to celestial atmospheres -- forest of columns -- Deformations of the metal formwork -- Parliament door and the Open Hand -- silhouette of the Governor's Palace -- signs of the Capitol -- City Centre -- ch. 5 Brutal skin In pise, brick and wood -- Pise, concrete with rubble, exposed brick -- Project for the village of humble houses in Chandigarh -- Sarabhai house at Ahmedabad: reinforced concrete beams for free walls -- Jaoul houses at Neuilly-sur-Seine: reinforced concrete beams for free windows -- Controlled constructive automatisms: bricks with crude joints and beton brut -- Musees a Croissance Illimite at Ahmedabad and Chandigarh -- Corollary of the sculptures moulees -- wooden Cabanon -- ch. 6 Machines a hablter for tropical visions and climates -- Villa Curutchet, or the landscapes' spectacle -- Villa Shodhan: erosion of the Purist volume at Garches -- Formwork with horizontal layers -- Millowners' Association building: perspective grids for vision and textile metaphors -- Indian perfection of beton brut -- Visual atmosphere and dignity of the stones of floors and walls -- ch. 7 Automatisms and projections of sounds and images -- Miracles box for spontaneous theater -- Kinetic illusionism, in the manner of Vasarely -- Automatic drawings: in the wake of Breton -- Transfer of works and photographic enlargements -- second Salubra wallpaper collection: Op and Pop patterns -- "Jeux electroniques" on the roof of the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille -- Philips Pavilion, or the space of Concrete Music and artistic projections -- Construction of the ruled surfaces -- Poeme electronique: art in the electronic age -- Electronic Laboratory of Scientific Decision and Round-Books -- Project for the Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti at Rho -- Restoration and transformation of Villa Savoye -- ch. 8 Toward a new stereotomy -- From texturique to opus moderne, to opus optimum: the truth of materials -- Monastery of La Tourette, forms of transfer -- Pan de verre ondulatoire -- Construction of the box for religious functions -- Walls in shuttered concrete with cement gun cladding -- design of the floors -- Brazilian Pavilion in Paris: souvenirs of landscapes and research on smooth concrete -- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts: the hands and the head -- Beton brut without artistics veins -- Smooth beton brut: the National Museum of Western Art of Tokyo -- hall and the photographic fresco -- Stereotomy and hardness of beton brut -- Opus Modulor of the beton brut: the Unite d'Habitation at Firminy -- Transfer of sections: the Church of Saint-Pierre and the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture -- Neat beton brut with sculpture in positive and negative -- Profiles of space -- Build without building: the Hospital of Venice.