With the collapse of Modernism in the 1960s, architecture has fragmented and evolved in many different directions, each driven by its own ideologies and theories. This book sets out a clear and comprehensive guide to the prominent styles and movements, tracing the work of the main protagonists of contemporary architecture.Architecture Today is divided thematically into sixteen chapters, offering an incisive critique of the predominant trends, stylistic and regional, of the last twenty-five years. These include the Los Angeles Avant-Garde and Experimentation in Japan, as well as the stylistic upheavals of Post-Modernism and Deconstructivism and the global development of Ecological Architecture and the Contemporary Vernacular. Biographies of the architects featured are also included in the book.Free from the jargon that often characterizes architectural criticism, Architecture Today is essential reading for all those interested in architecture, the visual arts and modern culture.

INDEX

AMERICA

TDCCBR Toronto

30 Adelaide Street East

Cannery Lofts

Bat Yahm Temple

Extension to the Denver Art Museum

Guest House

The Lurie "Shoulder" Garden

Skybridge at One North Halsted

Takeda Pharmaceutical North American Hedquarters

Cenrtal Indianapolis Waterfront

Eyebeam Institute

National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

Genzyme Center

House of Meditation

Teatro Reforma Colonia Juarez

Gota de Plata Auditorium Theater

Chilexpress

Fuente Nueva Chapel

NORTHERN EUROPE

N.1 Deansgate

Albion Riverside

Passarelle Valmy

Passarelle Simone de Beauvoir

Le Monde

Footbridge over the Rhine

Beatrixkwartier

Theater Castellum

Church in Rijsenhout

Mahler 4 Office Tower

VM Houses

Viikki Church

New Terminal of the Ko1n-Bonn Flughafen

Deustche Post

EXPO Train Stations

Leonardo Glass Cube

NRGI Headquarters

Mercedes-Benz Museum

Munchen Airport Center (MAC)

Islamic Forum

School in Taufkirchen

LSV Office Building

Sony Center 02

Financial and Commercial Department of Voestalpine Stahl GmbH

Danube University Krems

Schlachthausgasse

Schiebel Building

SOUTHERN EUROPE

Tenerife Auditorium

Madrid-Barajas International Airport's New Terminal

Guggenheim Bilbao

Agbar Tower

5 Sentidos Lounge Bar

Santo Volto Church

Church in Seveso

D&G Headquarters

Multiplex Cinecity&imena

Nardini Center

Ex Arena Braga

Memorial Pedestrian Bridge

EURASIA

New Mariinsky Theater

Kemerlife XXl

Kanyon

Evidea

ASIA

Ibn Battuta Ma11556

Emirates Tower Complex

Burj AI Arab

Mosque in Chittagong

Tongxian Gatehouse

Xinzhao Residential Area

Zhongguancun Culture Center

Watercube

Shanghai New International Expo Center

Grand Gateway

Siam Paragon

Dream Mall

Sendal Baptist Church

House in Chikata

OCEANIA

150 Liverpool Street

National Emergency Services Memorial

Federation Square

Barro House

Floating Island