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Architects have been drawing for centuries on their creative abilities to produce astonishing works of imagination, but the greatest period of experimentation has been from the Second World War to the present. This book, newly available in paperback, is a highly acclaimed survey of the breathtakingly visionary and experimental architecture of this period. With its copious illustrations and analyses of the early, radical work of many of today's most important architects, as well as seminal work of earlier practitioners, it is a complete resource for students and professionals and the authoritative source on a subject of essential interest for all in the world of architecture.

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Library Journal Review

This disappointing book surveys visionary architecture of the last 50 years, addressing everything from Constant Niewenhuys's situationist New Babylon project of the 1950s to Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio's latest constructions. While claiming to be "the definitive history of 20th-century visionary architecture," it merely skims the first half of that century in one introductory chapter, then delves more deeply into the last 50 years in the ten remaining chapters. The organization is chronological and topical, with each chapter bearing a profile of a major designer--among whom, rather immodestly, Spiller (architecture & digital theory, University Coll. London; Digital Dreams) himself can be found. The underlying subject is the accelerating disappearance of design as an intellectual, moral, physical, and aesthetic act under the overwhelming impact of digitalization. Readers will find themselves in a hall of mirrors at a giant fun house, unable to differentiate between the real and the virtual, animate and inanimate. With precious little thoughtful analysis and a great deal of superficial description--one project after another, one designer after another, one decade after another, one movement after another--the book offers little to dispel the aura of a disappointing, disheartening, disorienting spectacle. Not recommended.--Peter Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Neil Spiller is Vice Dean of the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London.