"ARCHITECTURE IS A CHESS GAME OF FORM & STORY WAGED ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF A BUILDING AND ITS SITE," proclaims architect Jef7rey Hildner in his 9-point Visual Ef9ects Manifesto. “In a building, everything must be formed,” he writes, “but a great building—like a great movie—presents more than Form, more than Visual Effects. A great building presents Visual Ef9ects. The silent ‘9’ stands for Story.” Visual Ef9ects reflects Hildner’s quest to design buildings that present a creative demonstration of what he calls The Chess Game of Art—where the White Army of Form (Aesthetics: Chess Moves) and the Black Army of Story (Symbolics: Chess Meaning) battle for our mind and soul and heart. Form & Story fight to create a heart-pounding work of art. The book springs from the author’s talk by the same title that he gave in 2016 for the Symposium on Formalism—"The F Word"—at the Syracuse University School of Architecture Program in Florence. "The road to safety will open first from where you least expect it." —Virgil, The Aeneid