Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field, for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonies Reiser + Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought arid simplicity- The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser Umemoto see architectural design' as a series of problem situations, and each chapter is an argument devoted a specific condition or case.