Architecture for the Future

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Summary: Architecture for the future
Review: It's really a great selection of the latest works of some of the best architects of our time! The projects exposed, there are more than sixty projects!, show really well quite all the new tendences of Architecture, passing through ecology and technomogy. Texts analyze the architects, trying to explain their way of thinking and projecting and what the predict for the future of the architecture. It's really easy to understand and it gives a good overview on the new concepts in building. Illustrations, there are more than 170 colour illustrations and a lot of plans, sections and prospects, expose really well all the projects. There is a good historical introduction by Olivier Boissière, and then the architects are divided in five section: - Attitudes, with P. Cook, Arakawa and M. Gins, D. Libeskind, B. Tschumi, L. Woods, F. Roche - Performances, with R. Piano, N. Grimshaw, Sir N. Foster, Alsop & Stormer, J. Hondelatte - Form Exploded, with C. de Portzamparc, K. S. Takeyama, S. Yoh, M. Fuksas, O. Decq and B. Cornette, G. Domenig, OMA - R. Koolhaas, Z. Hadid, C. Himmelblau, E. Miralles Moya, F. D. Israel, E. Owen Moss, F. O. Gehry - A Secon Nature, with E. Ambasz, Morphosis, M. Takasaki, Sir R. Rogers, I. Hasegawa - Towards a Pixel Architecture, with Asymptote Architecture, Diller & Scofidio, Du Besset and Lyon, T. Ito, J. Nouvel, S. Takamatsu.