Publisher's Synopsis
This reference provides practising architects and students with useful, relevant information on contemporary architecture. It contains 585 revised entries and critical essays, with 73 individual architects and partnerships new to this edition.;The book is designed to give detailed profile entries on all architects included. It mixes facts with critical introduction and comment. Other features include: biographical profiles of individuals/partnerships; lists of awards and honours gained; works completed with locations, arranged chronologically; exhibitions listed separately with their catalogues; bibliography of books or articles by and about the architect for further research; statement by the architect, where available; signed critical essay by an authority in the field.;Architects featured in previous editions, but not featured in the third are cross-referenced in the text, indicating sources of useful information on architects of earlier decades of the 20th century.
