Publisher's Synopsis
Based on Wright's earlier "Highlights of Recent American Architecture", this book has been expanded from 397 to 512 entries and has 200 additional illustrations. In the traditions of the earlier book, it offers detailed information and descriptions of prominent structures built between 1945 and 1986 by noted contemporary architects from the United States and Canada.;Coverage starts with the architect Alva Aalto and ends with the Zeidler Partnership. The range of structures includes airports, apartment houses, art galleries, gardens, religious buildings, civic centres, clubhouses, condominiums, business structures, courthouses, factories and firehouses.
