Architecture Now Volume 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that the best keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses.
Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the new book:

? A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags
? ?Nomadic Museum? made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers
? A tree house in Germany
? Extraordinary museums that will never be built in Lausanne and Guadalajara
? New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, or Richard Meier
? BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid
? Allianz Arena by Herzog & de Meuron
? Wedding Chapel in Japan
? Design hotels in Berlin and Saõ Paulo or Cerro Paranal, Chile
? Library in Seattle by Rem Koolhaas/OMA
? Houses in Mexico City, Saõ Paulo, Corsica, Hiroshima, or Great Mackerel Beach, Australia
? Spoon des Neiges by Patrick Jouin
? A tower that will grow like a tree in New York
? With-it architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
? Artists who take on architectural space like Frank Stella or Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art like Peter Eisenman
? The E-House, architecture that is greener than green
? From the Minimal (David Chipperfield and John Pawson) to the decidedly exotic (Longitude 131, Uluru-Kata National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)

Dimensions: 8" x 10" (inches)
Pages: 575
Edition: Softcover
Languages: English
ISBN: 3-8228-3989-2