Architecture Today; Author: Steele, James; Hardback; Book

Author: Steele, James
Hardback; Book; 400 Colour and 200 B&w Illustrations, 100 Line Dra
512 pages
Published: May 2001
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714840971

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 clearand 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 inclAn exhaustive but accessible and higly illustrated survey of the styles, trends and movements in architecture worldwide since the 1960s. New in paperback. An exhaustive but accessible and higly illustrated survey of the styles, trends and movements in architecture worldwide since the 1960s. New in paperback.This work is a survey of trends in architecture worldwide since the 1960s. It takes as its starting point the international modernism that was once the norm, and charts its disintegration and the counter-movements and styles that have replaced it over the last 30 years.