Introduction: Beyond visibility: modern architecture in the photographic image

I. Architecture after photography : Bildarchitekturen: architectural surface, circa 1914 ; Photography into building: Mies in Barcelona ; Architectural abstraction the Tugendhat photographs

II. Architects and architectural photographs : Type-photo: architectural photography in Germany ; Aura deferred: Bauhausbauten Dessau ; The future in the present: Erscheinungsform and "The dwelling," 1927

III. Imageability : Promise and threat: American photographs in postwar Germany ; The photographic architecture of Hunstanton School ; From photographic surface to image object: James Stirling's postmodernism

Conclusion: Surface divides.