Modern Architecture A-Z

With almost 300 entries, this architectural A to Z offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of up to date space. Covering up to date architecture from the 19th into the 21st century, pioneering architects are each and every featured with a portrait and a concise biography, in addition to a description of his or her vital work.

Like a bespoke global architecture tour, this book will assist you to go back and forth from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Antoni Gaudí’s Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and leisure center on a former factory website online in São Paulo. You’ll take in Gio Ponti’s colored geometries, Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme.

The book’s A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and a lot more. With illustrations including one of the best architectural photography of the up to date era, it is a comprehensive resource for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.