Contemporary World Architecture

Comprehensive survey of international architecture

Contemporary World Architecture is a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the end of the twentieth century, offering a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that are shaping the built environment. Continual advances in building technology, shifting demographics and increasing levels of global communications each have a continuing impact on architectural ideology and building types.

Organized by building function

The book "Contemporary World Architecture" is divided into thirteen chapters, each organized typologically by building function: Visual Arts, Performance, Learning, Religion, Consumerism, Living, Workplace, Industry, Leisure, Transport, Sport, Civic Realm and Towers.

Public and private buildings

Contemporary World Architecture presents over 660 recent public and private buildings by many of the world’s key protagonists, and examines the evolution of new architectural solutions from the late 1960s to the end of the century. Now available for the first time in paperback, this highly illustrated and wide-ranging critique will provide a stimulating and invaluable reference book for a wide audience.

Hugh Pearman

Hugh Pearman has been architecture and design critic for the Sunday Times since 1986, and contributes to numerous other newspapers, magazines and journals in Europe and America. He is also the author of Equilibrium: the work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners (published by Phaidon).

Contemporary World Architecture

Contemporary World Architecture by Hugh Pearman
ISBN: 0714842036

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