In a period that privileges transience, architecture is curiously still prized for its durability, With the thunderous collapse of 1:heWorld Trade Center towers, it may be, though that the 21st century wilt be more a time of superficiality and ruin than of new and lastingmonuments to the spirit, Or might there be more hope for the future than this dark picture would suggest? The heavy stones of other erashave already given way to lightness both in form and n concept, often obviating the need to last a lifetime or more--the usually unstatedhope of any client, to leave a mark for new generations to admire, This is not to say that architects have broken with the past and thefuture, I. M Pei's Mudam in Luxembourg (Musee dart Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg, 1999-2006: 1) rises from the walls of fortifications designed by Vauban, and Richard Rogers's National Assembly for Wales (Cardiff, Wales, 1998-2005) was built to stand for at leasta 100 years.

INTRODUCTION

MARCOS ACAYABA

EMILIO AMBASZ

TADAO ANDO

RON ARAD

ASYMPTOTE

ATELIER SOA

ATELIER TEKUTO

CECIL BALMOND

BALMOND/KOOLHAAS

BOGE LINDNER ARCHITEKTEN

BOHLIN CYWINSKI JACKSON

ALDO CELORIA

DOUG CHIANG

DAVID CHIPPERFIELD

MATALI CRASSET

CURIOSITY

DEVANTHERY & LAMUNIERE

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO

EVAN DOUGLIS

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

ANTON GARCIA-ABRIL RUIZ

MARIO GARZANITI

FRANK O. GEHRY

SEAN GODSELL

GRAFT

ZAHA HADID

STEVEN HARRIS

HERTL.ARCHITEKTEN

HERZOG & DE MEURON

HHF

HOLODECK.AT

TOYO ITO

JARMUND/VIGSN/ES

PATRICK JOUIN

JUDD LYSENKO MARSHALL

ANISH KAPOOR

BERNARD KHOURY

MARCIO KOGAN

LOCALARCHITECTURE

GUILHERME MACHADO VAZ

MACKAY-LYONS SWEETAPPLE

MEIXNER SCHLOTER WENDT

PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA

MENIS/AMP

TOSHIKO MORI

MORPHOSIS

NEUTELINGS RIEDIJK

OSCAR NIEMEYER

RYUE NISHIZAWA

NO.MAD ARQUITECTOS

OSA

JOHN PAWSON

PEANUTZ ARCHITEKTEN

ARSENIO PEREZ AMARAL

PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN

RENZO PIANO

PIVNICE LTD.

PORNCHAI BOONSOM

MUTI RANDOLPH

RICHARD ROGERS

STANLEY SAITOWITZ

SEJIMA + NISHIZAWA/SA N AA

SANAKSENAHO ARCHITECTS

ALVARO LEITE SIZA VIEIRA

SPILLMANN ECHSLE

PHILIPPE STARCK

ROSS STEVENS

PHILIPPE STUEBI

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

SYSTEMARCHITECTS

UNSTUDIO

WANDEL HOEFER LORCH + HIRSCH

WHITE

MAKOTO YOKOMIZO

INDEX

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