This volume - the first in an anticipated series of similar anthologies - collects conversations from the past then issues of AA Files, the long running journal published by the Architectural association School of Architecture, and includes extended interviews with architects Francois Dallegret, Leon Krier, John Winter, Mario Botta, John Frazer, Massimo Scolari, Ludwig Miles van der Rohe and Moshe Safdie, artists Richard Wentworth and Thomas Demand, filmmaker Sally Potter, philosopher Paul Virilio,