Dissecting the new architectural landscape of the industrialized world, this collection of essays explores 10 recently completed projects which exemplify the forces that are shaping contemporary cities. It responds to a particular moment when architects are being compelled to answer the challenges of new media, globalization, post-industrial culture and the unprecedented scale and speed of modern development. These challenges have made the great concerns of the 20th-century architecture - the Modern Movement, Postmodernism and High-Tech - seem irrelevant. In contrast to the bland future-gazing that the eve of the new millennium has tended to inspire, this book sets out to evoke tangible urban experiences.
- ISBN10 1584230010
- ISBN13 9781584230014
- Publish Date 3 December 2005 (first published 22 February 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Gingko Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English