New Directions in Contemporary Architecture: Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988 by Luigi Puglisi
Published by Wiley, April 2008
Through its story-telling dimension, New Directions in Contemporary Architecture traces the last 20 years of Western architecture focusing attention on the current situation that includes designers’ eclecticism and style, the star system, urban and landscape design as well as the influence on architecture exerted by the so-called ‘digital revolution’. A number of historical events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11th and the energy crisis underline the narrative flow of the book, as the urgency of these events pose critical questions of architecture.
About the author
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi is an architecture critic and Professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the First University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, faculty of Architecture. He contributes regularly to Domus, L’Arca, Ottagno, The Architect’s Newspaper and A10; and he is an editor for the Swiss magazine Spazio Architettura.
Paperback, £19.99/€28.00; ISBN: 9780470518908
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