1. The open or the closed : De Stijl and Le Corbusier -- 2. De Stijl's other name -- 3. The furniture of the mind -- 4. The pavilion and the court -- 5. Lauweriks, Van Doesburg and Le Corbusier -- 6. Mies : the correspondence of thing and intellect -- 7. Figure and ground -- 8. The unchanging and the changeable