Architects Today

Have you ever wanted to have information about the worlds most influential architects at your fingertips? Written by three architectural journalists, this book cuts the worlds greatest and most provocative practicing architects down to size both the old and established and the rising stars. With two fully illustrated pages for each architect, a clear, lively design, and an alphabetical organization, “Architects Today” breaks down the usual arcane architectural categorizations. It offers an insight and introduction to key contemporary architects as well as a snapshot of the varied nature of today s architecture. For each architect, the book gives key biographical information as well as illustrations of their most representative and iconic buildings, and an assessment of their place in the international scene. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary architecture, as both an introduction and as a handy reference source.

Kester Rattenbury has contributed to Architects Today as an author.Kester Rattenbury is an architecture journalist and a professor at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of “This Is Not Architecture,” Robert Bevan is a journalist and the former editor of the magazine “Building Design,” Kieran Long is editor in chief for “Icon” magazine, has taught architecture at London Metropolitan University, and has contributed several articles to such magazines as “Baumeister “and” RIBA Journal,” He is the author of “New London Interiors,”