Architecture Now!
Philip Jodidio
Hardback

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