About the Guest-Editors (Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman).

Spotlight: Visual highlights of the issue.

Introduction.

The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies (Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman).

Radical Sources of Design Engineering (Werner Sobek).

The renowned proponent of ultra- lightweight structures charts how his consultancy has developed a far-reaching approach to practice.

Structured Becoming: Evolutionary Processes in Design Engineering (Klaus Bollinger, Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann).

Structuring Strategies for Complex Geometries (Wolf Mangelsdorf).

On Design Engineering (Hanif Kara).

Innovative design-led engineer Hanif Kara advocates a holistic approach to architecture and engineering.

Weaving Architecture: Structuring the Spanish Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghai (Julio Martínez Calzón and Carlos Castañón Jiménez).

Optioneering: A New Basis for Engagement Between Architects and their Collaborators (Dominik Holzer and Steven Downing).

Heinz Isler's Infinite Spectrum: Form-Finding in Design (John Chilton).

Architectural Geometry as Design Knowledge (Helmut Pottmann).

Structuring Materiality: Design Fabrication of Heterogeneous Materials (Neri Oxman).

Materialising Complexity (Fabian Scheurer).

Fabricating Design: A Revolution of Choice (Frank Barkow).

Timberfabric: Applying Textile Principles on a Building Scale (Yves Weinand and Markus Hudert).

Encoding Material (Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Silvan Oesterle).

The Return of the Future: A Second Go at Robotic Construction (Martin Bechthold).

Bechthold examines the recent revival in robotic technologies in construction.

A Deeper Structural Theory (Nina Rappaport).

Counterpoint.

Digital Solipsism and the Paradox of the Great 'Forgetting' (Neil Spiller).