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What will the cities of tomorrow look like? What shape will future landscapes take? What new visions will overthrow the blob-like buildings that are so common, and commonplace, in modern architecture? This hefty tome tries to suggest some the answers by presenting contemporary buildings designed with an eye towards the future. Intended for work, play, residence and business, these structures can be found in the city and in open landscapes. Cutting-edge studios, such as Niemeyer, Archigram, Frank Gehry, Fuksas, Shigeru Ban, Herzog & De Meuron and FOA, all leaders in the field of architecture, have contributed to this forward-looking volume.

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CHOICE Review

Prolific French critic Rambert provides a thoroughly reliable, remarkably comprehensive, and lavishly illustrated catalog of contemporary avant-garde world architecture. The illustrations and captions show the great variety of approaches to form making that forward-looking architects employed through the last decade. The text struggles to categorize these efforts; the narrative moves without emphasis and ends without conclusion; the organization of the four chapters seems forced. Yet these shortcomings appear inevitable. It is a book of the moment, accurately reflecting a pregnant turn in the history of the architectural profession, which is striving to contribute to tumultuous world events. The book will be of great value to different constituencies for different reasons. Architects and students will want to study the illustrations. Historians and critics will appreciate it as an accurate and well-written guide to a segment of early-21st-century architecture. Although the addition of an index would have made it more valuable in this regard, the book provides a wonderfully rich, inclusive look into the current state of progressive architectural practice. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. All levels. D. Sachs Kansas State University