Architects Today

Have you ever wanted to have information about the world's most influential practising architects at your fingertips? Written by three architectural journalists, this book cuts the world's greatest and most provocative practising architects down to size - both the old and established and the rising stars. With two, fully illustrated pages for each architect, a clear, lively design and an alphabetical organization, it breaks down the usual arcane architectural categorizations. It offers both an insight and introduction to the key contemporary architects as well as giving a snapshot of the varied nature of architecture today. For each architect, the book gives the key details of their life and work and illustrations of the most representative and iconic buildings, as well as assessing their place in the international scene. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary architecture, both as an introduction and as a handy reference source. Categorized under A-G, the architects included are: A - Abalos & Herreros/ Will Alsop/ Tadao Ando/ Archigram/ Wiel Arets/ Arquitectonica/ Ashton Raggatt McDougall/ Asymptote; B - Shigeru Ban/ Gunter Behnisch/ Mario Botta; C - Santiago Calatrava/ Caruso St John/ David Chipperfield/ Kees Christiaanse/ Henri Ciriani/ Nigel Coates/ Coop Himmelb(I)au/ Charles Correa; D - De Blacam & Meagher Giancarlo de Carlo/ Odile Decq Benoit / Cornette/ Xaveer de Geyter/ Neil Denari/ Denton Corker Marshall/ Christian de Portzamparc/Diener & Diener/ Diller + Scofidio/ Gunther Domenig/ Balkrishna Doshi; E - Peter Eisenman/ Arthur Erickson/ Ralph Erskine; F - Terry Farrell/ Fat/ Sverre Fehn/ Foreign Office Architects/ Norman Foster/ Tony Fretton/ Massimiliano Fuksas/ Future Systems; G - Frank O. Gehry/ Michael Graves/ Vittorio Gregotti/ Nicholas Grimshaw; H - Zaha Hadid/ Itsuko Hasegawa/ Zvi Hecker/ Thomas Herzog/ Herzog & de Meuron/ Steven Holl/ Hans Hollein. Categorized under I-X, the architects included are: I - Arata Isozaki/ Toyo Ito; J - Eva Jiricna/ Philip Johnson; K - Rem Koolhaas/ Leon Krier/ Lucien Kroll/ Kisho Kurokawa; L - Lab Architecture Studio/ Lacaton Vassal/ Daniel Libeskind/ Maya Lin/ Greg Lyn; M - Fumihiko Maki/ Imre Makovecz/ MBM/ Richard Meier/ Miralles Tagliabue/ Rafael Moneo/ Morphosis/ Eric Owen Moss/ Glenn Murcutt/ MVRDV; N - Neutelings Riedijk/ Oscar Niemeyer/ Jean Nouve; O - O'Donnell & Tuomey/ Ortner & Ortner; P - John Pawson/ I. M. Pei/ Dominique Perrault/ Renzo Piano/ Antoine Predock/ Cedric Price; R - Robbrecht & Daem/ Richard Rogers; S - Moshe Safdie/ Sauerbruch Hutton/ Harry Seidler/ Kazuo Sejima/ Claudio Silvestrin/ Alvaro Siza/ Snohetta/ SOM/ Eduardo Souto de Moura; T - Kenzo Tange/ TEN Arquitectos/ Bernard Tschumi; U - O. M. Ungers/ UN Studio/ Ushida Findlay/ Jorn Utzon; V - Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates/ Rafael Vinoly; W - West 8/ Tod Williams Billie Tsien/ Lebbeus Woods. Categorized under Y-Z, the architects included are: Y - Ken Yeang; and, Z - Peter Zumthor.