Asymptote, a Manhattan-based architectural firm, expands the boundaries of traditional architectural practice with work that ranges from urban designs to computer-generated environments. This title presents a filmstrip-like unfolding of images and ideas to document "real-world" projects.

Echoing Asymptote's approach, this text presents a seamless trajectory of projects organized in a non-linear fashion and illustrated with installation photographs, collaged photographs and computer-generated diagrams and environments, all in colour. Photographs of an installation might be followed by a spread of Asymptote's "scapes" - computer diagrams morphed into a variety of potential body forms or structures - followed in turn by images of a virtual environment. The projects follow one another in a panoramic, filmstrip fashion and are interspersed with descriptive text and the speculative writing that Asymptote is known for. This text is intended to be explored at random, without strict beginning or end.

Projects: Guggenheim Virtual Museum
Virtual New York Stock Exchange
installation at Henry Urbach Gallery, New York
installation at TZ art gallery, New York
Fluxspace 1.0, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Fluxspace 2.0, Venice Biennale 2000
Claudia Hill installation, New York
Knoll A3 system furniture
Knoll Showroom, Chicago
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
New York Stock Exchange Advanced Trading Floor Operations Center
Univers Theater, Denmark
Floriade Pavillion Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands
Experimental Music Theater, Graz, Austria
Multimedia Research Park, Kyoto, Japan
Mission Armory Internet Complex, San Francisco
Technology Culture Museum, New York
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
Copenhagen Architexturing
Beukenhorst office development, Schiphol, The Netherlands
World Intellectual Properties Organization, Geneva
Airport Urbanism
"B-scapes"
"I-scapes"
"DataScapes"