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As always, TASCHEN is doing its best to keep up with the fast paced world of architecture by continually producing guides to the worlds best designers and projects. For the third volume of our Architecture Now! series, weve included many new and ex citing names as well as recent projects by perennial favorites. Illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses.

Dokumentující dílo nejavantgardnějších a nejvlivnějších současných architektů celého světa. Obsahuje jména již proslulých i debutujících architektů a tentokrát i řady designérů, protože se snaží zachytit probíhající proces, v němž architektura a design splývají. Věnuje se i dalšímu směru vývoje, v němž se architektura šíří za zdi budov: architektuře krajiny. Jednotlivé texty jsou uspořádány abecedně a uvádějí nedávno rozběhnuté i zcela nové projekty, životopisy architektů, jejich kontaktní informace a webové stránky.

Architecture Now! Volume 4 proves that the best keep 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 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 * New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, Richard Meier or Herzog & de Meuron * The BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid * Klein Dytham's amazing Wedding Chapel in Japan * Design hotels in Berlin, São Paulo, and Cerro Paranal, Chile * The new masterpiece by Rem Koolhaas/OMA - the Central Library in Seattle * Private houses in Mexico City, São Paulo, Corsica, and Great Mackerel Beach, Australia * Mix Las Vegas 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 Anselm Kiefer, Frank Stella and Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art, like Peter Eisenman

From the early days as a member of the New York Five, Richard Meier has been a central figure in contemporary architecture in the United States. With the Getty Center and more recent buildings such as the Jubilee Church in Rome, the New Yorker has ce mented his reputation as a truly international figure who has expanded the horizons of contemporary American architecture while maintaining his rigorous approach to design and detailing. Known for carefully conceived grid plans and frequent use of wh ite, Richard Meier is a master of light and space, able to adapt his style to very different circumstances and locations. The entire span of Meier's career, right up to his most recent designs for New York and Shenzhen, is included in this exceptiona l volume, created in close collaboration between the architect, the author, and the eminent graphic designer Massimo Vignelli. This spectacular monograph displays Meier's work in unprecedented size and brilliance, and features a preface by the noted Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza.

TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects’ or firms’ most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.

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.

The past five years have seen a revolution in Chinese architecturethe emergence of independent designers, and a number of new starsand above all new and interesting buildings that are not the product of direct Western influence. These developments have laid the groundwork for an indigenous modernity that differentiates itself from outside schools as well as eschewing the temptation to put a "Chinese-style" roof on ordinary office blocks. The fact that Beijing has been chosen to host the 2008 S ummer Olympic Games has been more than a catalyst for the development of high-quality contemporary architecture in China. Major foreign firms like OMA/Rem Koolhaas or Herzog & de Meuron are participating in the design of buildings that will have func tions during the Games, but Chinese architects, too, have been mobilized in this massive effort to prepare the country for an unprecedented level of world-wide attention.

When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary archite cts, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not o nly focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim V an der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, Franois Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.

Dokumentující dílo nejavantgardnějších a nejvlivnějších současných architektů celého světa. Obsahuje jména již proslulých i debutujících architektů a tentokrát i řady designérů, protože se snaží zachytit probíhající proces, v němž architektura a design splývají. Věnuje se i dalšímu směru vývoje, v němž se architektura šíří za zdi budov: architektuře krajiny. Jednotlivé texty jsou uspořádány abecedně a uvádějí nedávno rozběhnuté i zcela nové projekty, životopisy architektů, jejich kontaktní informace a webové stránky.

The small emirates and states located on the Gulf, at the eastern edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, are building new cities in the desert at an astonishing rate, from Bahrain to Doha, and south to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Comprised of Abu D habi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, the UAE is an oil-and-gas-rich region that has experienced an unparalleled architectural boom in recent years. With a dizzying array of ultra-modern towers popping up throughou t the area, it's no surprise that the Gulf region has attracted many of the world's most prominent architects, including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel, who are all designing groundbreaking projects for the ambitious Cultural Di strict project on Saadiyat Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. With these and many more remarkable, large-scale projects recently built or in progress, the Gulf emirates are perhaps today's top architectural hotspot.

Architecture Now! Volume 4 proves that the best keep 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 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 * New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, Richard Meier or Herzog & de Meuron * The BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid * Klein Dytham's amazing Wedding Chapel in Japan * Design hotels in Berlin, São Paulo, and Cerro Paranal, Chile * The new masterpiece by Rem Koolhaas/OMA - the Central Library in Seattle * Private houses in Mexico City, São Paulo, Corsica, and Great Mackerel Beach, Australia * Mix Las Vegas 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 Anselm Kiefer, Frank Stella and Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art, like Peter Eisenman

Der Erfolgsband Architecture Now aus dem Taschen Verlag hat Nachwuchs bekommen: Architecture Now 2 ist da und dem ersten Band in Gewicht, Ausstattung und in seiner architektonischen Bandbreite absolut ebenbürtig. Sogar das Motto ist immer noch gleich geblieben: "Zurück in die Zukunft" heißt es im Umschlag beider schwer gewichtigen Bände, die sich laut eigenen Worten auf "Die Suche nach einer neuen Architektur" begeben. Auf den fast 600 dreisprachigen und reichlich mit Farbbildern ausgestatteten Seiten tauchen auch alte Bekannte aus Band eins wieder auf, beispielsweise Santiago Calatrava, Asymptote, Bernard Tschumi, Frank O. Gehry und Tadao Ando. Die vorgestellten Bauwerke aus allen Teilen der Welt sind allerdings nicht bekannt aus dem ersten Band, sondern brandneue, innovative und zum Teil noch gar nicht vollendete Architekturprojekte. Der Fokus bei der Auswahl liegt diesmal allerdings noch mehr auf der Zukunft und dem Experimentellen: Computergestütztes Design und auch nur komplett virtuell existierende Architektur kommen ebenso zum Zug wie funktionelles Bauen. Der Herausgeber Philip Jodidio legt im Vorwort Wert darauf, dass auch ökologische, kostengünstige und an die Gegebenheiten angepasste Bauweisen vorgestellt werden und auch die Sanierung bestehender Gebäude thematisiert wird, da wir es in Zukunft massiv mit der Entscheidung abreißen oder sinnvoll sanieren zu tun haben werden. Für Jodidio ist und bleibt jedoch die Frage nach der Flexibilität eines Bauwerkes die alles entscheidende Frage in der Zukunft der Architektur: "Flexibilität und auch die Fähigkeit, sich funktionalen Notwendigkeiten und der Entwicklung der Zeit anzupassen, machen den grundlegenden Erfolg neuer Architektur aus." Genau nach diesen Maßstäben sind die hier vorgestellten Projekte ausgewählt: von biologisch anmutender Gestaltung öffentlicher Gebäude bis hin zu minimalistischen Wohnhäusern ist alles dabei, was es an innovativer zeitgenössischer Architektur auf dem Globus gibt. Ein Muss also für jeden an Architektur Interessierten, ob Professional oder Laie, da es wohl in dieser Vollständigkeit kaum ein anderes Buch gibt. Und wer Band eins noch nicht kennt und nun noch ein paar Bilder sehen möchte, kann hier auch gleich einen Blick ins Buch werfen. --Gabi Bauer