COLLECTION : EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE - EUROPAISCHE ARCHITEKTUR - ARCHITECTURE EUROPEENNE.

Contemporary architecture in the U. S. A. today presents a fascinating interplay of a multitude of regionalisms and architectural traditions with current national and international trends. Accordingly, Collection : U. S. Architecture presents projects by smaller offices with a regional focus, as well as by globally operating stars. From the portraits of a variety of construction projects, including high rises, museums, country estates, sports complexes, and sacral buildings, emerges a picture that presents the special and unique characteristics that distinguish the architecture between Pacific and Atlantic. From the contents : - Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA (Daniel Libeskind) - Switch Building in New York, NY, (nARCHITECTS) - Des Moines Public Library, IA (David Chipperfields Architects) - Cube Tower in Miami, FL (Oppenheim) - The Prayer Chapel in Phoenix, AZ (DeBartolo Architects)

From cozy, loft-style homes to palatial mansions, elegant retreats to functional family homes, this illustrated volume brings together a collection of the most inspirational tropical houses. These are timeless spaces where refined aesthetics and local materials, simplicity and grandeur, nature and architecture reside together in peaceful co-existence. Tropical Houses presents a stunning array of the most ambitious examples of recent residential architecture and design in the tropical regions of this world, from Brazil to the Carribbean, from Bali to Singapore. Each architect featured here, renowned designers as well as innovative newcomers, has produced an architectural masterpiece. It is an invitation to dream - and to believe in the possibility of that dream becoming reality.