Architecture Now! 4

Architecture Now! 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that it just 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
Extraordinary museums that will never be built in Lausanne and Guadalajara
New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tun, or Richard Meier
BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid
Allianz Arena by Herzog & de Meuron
Wedding Chapel in Japan
Design hotels in Berlin and Sa Paulo or Cerro Paranal, Chile
Library in Seattle by Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Houses in Mexico City, Sa Paulo, Corsica, Hiroshima, or Great Mackerel Beach, Australia
Spoon des Neiges by Patrick Jouin
A tower that will grow like a tree in New York
Fab architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
Artists who take on architectural space like Frank Stella or Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art like Peter Eisenman
The E-House, architecture that is greener than green
From the Minimal (David Chipperfield and John Pawson) to the decidedly exotic (Longitude 131, Uluru-Kata National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)

About the Author

Philip Jodidio

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Álvaro Siza, and is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.