Author(s): Neil Spiller

Architecture

For the past six decades, architects have created an astonishing, influential range of design ideas, architectural constructs and urban utopias. Since the Second World War, technology has caught up with our imagination: such practitioners as Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid, whose works were often considered too experimental or controversial to construct, are now creating real, iconic buildings. The definitive history of visionary and experimental architecture since 1945, Visionary Architecture contains:

• A thematic overview of the most important and far-reaching work produced in the last sixty years
• A survey of some of the most exciting practices working today, particularly in the digital realm, shown through case studies in each chapter, such as Diller+Scofidio, Morphosis and NOX
• Illustrated glossary of ideas, movements, people and terms.

Narrative, case studies and glossary thus offer a complete resource for students and professionals and will become the authoritative source on a subject of essential interest for all in the world of architecture, building and construction.