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A comprehensive global survey of more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects from the 20th century to the present day

The Atlas of Never Built Architecture features hundreds of the most spectacular unbuilt projects of the 20th and 21st centuries in a comprehensive, geographically arranged survey. At times impractical or fanciful but always imaginative and ambitious, the projects included in this ground-breaking book reveal the incredible diversity of ideas that have emerged from the world's most influential architects.

A vast array of imagery, from initial sketches and paintings to etchings and digital renderings, offers insight into how architectural projects are conceived and developed, and the book features a wide-ranging selection of projects, such as parliamentary buildings, museums, arts centers, skyscrapers, artificial islands, and city plans. Futuristic visions from the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Le Corbusier, sit alongside more contemporary proposals from talents such as Norman Foster, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, Steven Holl, and Zaha Hadid to show how our built environments could have looked very different indeed.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Lubell and Goldin (coauthors of Never Built Los Angeles) team up for a visually stunning if shallow compendium of 345 architectural projects that never made it off the drawing board. Spanning from the 20th century to the present day, the featured projects include Frank Lloyd Wright's 1957 "Plan for Greater Baghdad," a collection of buildings centered by a spherical opera house, which was scrapped when the government commissioning the project was overthrown in a military coup; J.J.P. Oud's 1931 Blijdorp Housing in the Netherlands, which introduced the idea of the apartment complex but proved too expensive to build; and Kengo Kuma's 2014 Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, a five-story structure supported by an artificial cave full of vegetation, which was rejected when the foundation who'd commissioned it demanded a high-rise component. The drawings are beautiful and many of the projects are architecturally fascinating, but the authors don't explain their selection process or meaningfully connect the entries, making for an account that can feel somewhat flat and disconnected. The result is an intriguing but incomplete survey. Illus. (Sept.)

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Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin are Los Angeles-based architecture writers. World experts on unbuilt architecture, they are the co-authors and co-curators of the hit exhibitions and companion books Never Built New York and Never Built Los Angeles . They have each contributed to numerous publications, including the New York Times and Architectural Record , and Sam has also written several books for Phaidon, including Life Meets Art and Drama .