Architects at the cutting edge 

 

Architecture Now! Volume 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that the best keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses.

Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the new book:

• A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags
• Nomadic Museum made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers
• A tree house in Germany
• New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, Richard Meier or Herzog & de Meuron
• The BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid
• Klein Dytham's amazing Wedding Chapel in Japan
• Design hotels in Berlin, São Paulo, and Cerro Paranal, Chile
• The new masterpiece by Rem Koolhaas/OMA - the Central Library in Seattle
• Private houses in Mexico City, São Paulo, Corsica, and Great Mackerel Beach, Australia
• Mix Las Vegas by Patrick Jouin
• A tower that will grow like a tree in New York
• With-it architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
• Artists who take on architectural space like Anselm Kiefer, Frank Stella and Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art, like Peter Eisenman

About the author:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard University, and was editor-in-chief of the leading French art journal Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. He has published numerous articles and books on contemporary architecture, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Álvaro Siza.