ARCHITECTURE NOW!

glossy full color illustrated flexibound vinyl cover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper (as issued). very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). decorative endpapers. 191p.+ publisher's ad. every page photo illustrated in full glossy color. architecture. art history. art books. ~ In this book the work of eighty~seven different architects is presented, each of them with their own style, materials and regional influences. The buildings shown here are made of concrete (Tadao Ando), or of paper (Shigeru Ban); they are minimalist (Wiel Arets), sculptural (Frank Gehry), or even figurative (Branson Coates). Because they are selected precisely for the variety of their work, because each of these architects is important in his or her own way, the eighty~seven selected here can be considered to be today's most creative building designers. They are Australian, Japanese, American or European, but they are each engaged in solving the practical problems of a given client, site and function, while still adding something of their own personality, their own take on what makes architecture truly contemporary. And out of their diversity can be drawn an almost self~evident conclusion: today there is no International Style, no one way to view the present.…