Adam Caruso is not only a member, together with Peter St John, of the London-based architecture office Caruso St John but also a prolific author who has focused his thoughts on the practice of architecture and who has taken a new look at some of the leading figures of the so-called ´other tradition´ in the Modern Movement. In ´Sigurd Lewerentz and a material basis for form´ (1997), ´The Tyranny of the New´ (1998), ´The Feeling of Things´ (1999), ´The Emotional City´ (2000), and ´Towards an Ontology of Construction´ (2002), we find a new perception of the radical approach adopted in modern and contemporary architecture.