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 architects, 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 only 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 Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, François Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.

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

Featuring:
Hitoshi Abe, Vito Acconci, David Adjaye, Werner Aisslinger, Asymptote, Shigeru Ban, Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, Santiago Calatrava, Cook/Fournier, Charles Deaton, dECOi, Neil M. Denari, Diller & Scofidio, Olafur Eliasson, Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda, FOA, Frank O. Gehry, Gigon/Guyer, Sean Godsell, Alexander Gorlin, Gould Evans, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, Wes Jones, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Meyer en Van Schooten, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Nouvel, NOX, plexus r+d, Dirk Jan Postel, Werner Sobek, Philippe Starck, Jyrki Tasa, Akira Yoneda, Carlos Zapata, René van Zuuk.

Architecture at the dawn of the 21st century: the indispensable compendium

100 Современных Архитекторов. Это двухтомное собрание, основанное на лучшем из инновационной книги "Здания нового тысячелетия" и первых четырех томах "Архитектура сейчас!" содержит практически исчерпывающие сведения о самом значимом из всемирной архитектуры начала 21-го столетия. Представлены как восходящие звезды мировой архитектуры, так и заслуженные метры такие как Сантьяго Калатрава, Герцог и де Мерон, Кулхаас/ОМА, Даниэль Либескин, Ричард Майер, Оскар Нимейер,  Жан Нувэль.

This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's groundbreaking title Building a New Millennium and the first four volumes of our renowned Architecture Now! books for a comprehensive study of architecture around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Up-and-coming architects - tomorrow's superstars - are featured alongside the field's most respected practitioners, such as Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Koolhaas/OMA, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Jean Nouvel.

About the author:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone

Architects featured: AEDAS, Tadao Ando, Asymptote, Atkins, Behnisch Architects, Frank O. Gehry, Gensler, Zaha Hadid, HOK Sport, Kazuhiro Kojima+Kazuko Akamatsu/C+A, KPF, Greg Lynn Form, Jean Nouvel, OMA/Rem Kohlhaas, ONL, Carlos Ott, I.M. Pei, RNL, Hadi Simaan, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Studio Pei Zhu

Master of form. Santiago Calatrava's fusion of architecture, art and engineering (Complete Works 1979-2007)

Santiago Calatrava is a renowned architect, structural engineer and artist. Recent projects such as the Athens 2004 Olympic sports complex, the Turning Torso in Malmo, and TGV  station in Liège, have brought him international acclaim. The only architect to exhibit at both the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he is presently designing the main transportation hub for Ground Zero in Manhattan, as well as the tallest building in the USA: the 160-story Chicago Spire Tower.

Calatrava collaborated extensively on this monograph, which traces his career and places his architecture in the context of his art and engineering prowess. All of his works, from the suspended swimming pool at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology to his latest, startling designs, are featured in this lavishly illustrated volume, along with watercolours created by the architect specifically for its fold-out pages.

The author:

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

Другие книги серии XL

Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works, Vol. 1, 1885–1916

Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works, Vol.2, 1917-1942

Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works, Vol.3, 1943-1959

Zaha Hadid, Complete Works 1979–2009

Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel, Complete Works 1970-2008

Ando. Complete Works, Updated Version 2010

Shigeru Ban, Complete Works 1985-2010

Renzo Piano. Complete Works

Микеланджело: Полное собрание произведений

Now in its fifth instalment, the Architecture Now! series is an ongoing project documenting the work of the most innovative and influential architects across the globe. Volume 5 features famous names and newcomers alike and this time around a number of designers are also included, reflecting the new ways in which design and architecture are coming together. Since architecture also extends beyond walls, landscape architecture makes its appearance as well. Easy-to-navigate illustrated A–Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and web sites.

Featured architects: Marcos Acayaba, Emilio Ambasz, Tadao Ando, Ron Arad, Asymptote, Atelier SoA, Atelier Tekuto, Cecil Balmond, Cecil Balmond/Rem Koolhaas, Böge Lindner Architekten, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Aldo Celoria, Doug Chiang, David Chipperfield, Matali Crasset, Curiosity, Devanthéry & Lamunière, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Evan Douglis Studio, Elmgreen & Dragset, Antón García-Abril, Mario Garzaniti, Frank O. Gehry, Sean Godsell, Graft, Zaha Hadid, Steven Harris, Hertl, Herzog & de Meuron, HHF architects, HOLODECK.at, Toyo Ito, Jarmund/Vigsnæs, Patrick Jouin, Jesse Judd, Anish Kapoor, Bernard Khoury, Marcio Kogan, Localarchitecture, Guilherme Machado Vaz, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple, Meixner-Schlüter-Wendt, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Menis Arquitectos/AMP Arquitectos, Toshiko Mori, Morphosis, Neutelings Riedijk, Oscar Niemeyer, Ryue Nishizawa, NO.MAD Arquitectos, osa - office for subversive architecture, John Pawson, Peanutz Architekten, Arsenio Pérez Amaral, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Renzo Piano, Pivnice LTD, Pornchai Boonsom, Muti Randolph, Richard Rogers, Stanley Saitowitz, SANAA, Sanaksenaho Architects, Álvaro Siza, Spillmann. Echsle Architekten, Philippe Starck, Ross Stevens, Philippe Stuebi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, SYSTEMarchitects, UNStudio, Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch, White, Makoto Yokomizo

The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. With the aid of sophisticated computer programs, today's most innovative architects are working on designs so conceptual they could not be realized in the physical world. Nevertheless, these sorts of forward-thinking projects are an important influence on the architectural climate.

At the dawn of the 21st century, architecture is entering a paradigm shift; no longer can it be completely distinguished from art. Be they built from bytes or bricks, the projects in this book represent the imagination of the planet's most talented and creative architects. For all the latest and most important architectural projects and trends, look no further than this volume, the follow-up to our popular and groundbreaking book "Architecture Now!"

Including:

Allmann Sattler Wappner, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Santiago Calatrava, Alberto Campo Baeza, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Neil M. Denari, Diller & Scofidio, Jean-Marie Duthilleul, Frank O. Gehry, Sean Godsell, Nicholas Grimshaw, John Hejduk, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jakob + MacFarlane, Michael Jantzen, Jones, Partners, Rick Joy, Rei Kawakubo, Waro Kishi, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn/Form, Samuel Mockbee and Rural Studio, Morphosis, Marcos Novak, NOX, Pei Partnership, Harry Seidler, Snøhetta, Julie Snow Architects, Philippe Starck, Jyrki Tasa, James Turrell, UN Studio, Koen van Velsen, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Tod Williams, Billie Tsien & Associates

Feats of design and engineering.

Santiago Calatrava is not only one of the world’s most prominent architects but is also an engineer, sculptor, and painter. His reputation as an unparalleled architectural engineer was cemented with his numerous bridges for cities around the world. With recent projects such as the stadium for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and the new railway station in Liège, Belgium, he has unarguably made his name in Europe and continues to look further ahead. His work is closely related to his own drawings of the human body, and to his sculptures of geometric forms, inspired by the dynamics of movement and tension. Winner of the 2005 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the only architect ever to have his work exhibited at both the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Calatrava is one of today’s greatest and most innovative architects. This book provides an introduction to and an overview of his work to date.

Посмотреть русскоязычное издание книги Santiago Calatrava - Калатрава

About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

- approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
- introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
- the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of a client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
-an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The Tadao touch: Ando's complete works to date

"In architecture, there is a part that is the result of logical reasoning and a part that is created through the senses. There is always a point where they clash. I don't think architecture can be created without that collision." - Tadao Ando

Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.

His name is Tadao Ando, and he is the world's greatest living architect. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. Ando has designed award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA. This book, created at the height of Ando's illustrious career, presents his complete works to date.

Great Leap Forward: Contemporary Architecture in China

The past five years have seen a revolution in Chinese architecture - the emergence of independent designers, and a number of new stars - and above all new and interesting buildings that are not the product of direct Western influence. These developments have laid the groundwork for 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 Summer 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 functions during the Games, but Chinese architects, too, have been mobilized in this massive effort to prepare the country for an unprecedented level of worldwide attention.

Architects featured: Atelier Deshaus, FCJZ Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, AZL Atelier Zhanglei, EDGE Design Institute, Fake Design, Herzog & de Meuron, HHF Architects, Arata Isozaki, Jiakun Architects, Kengo Kuma, Li Xiaodong Atelier, MAD, MADA s.p.a.m., Michael Maltzan, Toshiko Mori, NODE – Architecture, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Pei Zhu, URBANUS Architecture & Design, Wang Hui, Zhu Xiaofeng/Scenic Architecture

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.

Tadao Ando is the most revered Japanese architect at work today. Beloved and admired for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual and yet refined use of the materials of the modern trade-wood, steel, concrete, glass-Ando's work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. Tadao Ando at Naoshima: Art, Architecture, Nature showcases the latest work in an on going process of building by Tadao Ando at the acclaimed Naoshima Island Art Complex. Featured here is Ando's recently completed Chichu Art Museum, an underground facility built on the small island in the Inland Sea of Japan. With respect for the landscape and the traditional use of the land as terraced salt fields, Ando adapted the architecture to the topography, by burying much of the complex volume below the ground. Ando's Naoshima is a stunning demonstration of architectural virtuosity.