Architecture is a word often used metaphorically, referring not only to built designs but also to any coherent formulation that results from a conscious act. The work of Yeohlee Teng clearly falls into the latter category. Teng came from her native Malaysia to study at the Parsons School of Design in New York, staying on to launch the fashion label Yeohlee - clothing that's sometimes soft and supple, sometimes strikingly geometric, sometimes both at once, and always ravishingly simple. As Paola Antonelli, curator of the Museum of Modern Art's architecture and design department, writes in one of the book's eight essays, "Good design may be described as a combination of lucid strategy, speculative interest in other human beings, and aesthetic talent. It then follows that some particular instances of clothing design naturally belong to the field of design studies.... The best contemporary objects are those which express consciousness by displaying the reasons why they were made and the process that led to their making."