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Russia - USSR - CIS
One thousand of the world's most notable buildings of the 20th century are presented in this 10-volume series. Each volume focuses on a particular geographical region, highlighting 100 buildings through text, photographs, and drawings.
What Goes Up
Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He looks at what has happened to Ground Zero, as a place of memory has been reconstructed by "staritects" and turned into malls. The city, he suggests, has to be reimagined from the street up on a human scale, to develop new ways to revitalise neighbourhoods. Alongside these essays on New York, Sorkin also brings his lifetime's experience as an architect to bear. He talks of the joy of observing a city in order to understand it. Why a young designer must learn to draw by hand rather than only use a computer. There are also personal encounters with some of the greatest names who have changed the city. Sorkin gets lost in Rio with Zaha Hadid and talks about the old Bronx with Marshall Berman.
East Asia
World architecture 1900-2000: a critical mosaic: vol 1-10.
The Middle East
World architecture 1900-2000: a critical mosaic: vol 1-10.
Russia - USSR - CIS
One thousand of the world's most notable buildings of the 20th century are presented in this 10-volume series. Each volume focuses on a particular geographical region, highlighting 100 buildings through text, photographs, and drawings.
Southeast Asia and Oceania
World architecture 1900-2000: a critical mosaic: vol 1-10.
World Architecture 1900-2000 : a Critical Mosaic: South Asia
"This series of 10 volumes record[s] the century's most significant architectural achievements and cover[s] all parts of the world. Altogether 1000 buildings and urban complexes have been selected by noted architectural writers and critics. Within each volume, one hundred significant examples represent the political, economical, cultural and demographic evolution of the particular region over the century. THe evident complexity of the enterprise cannot entirely exclude a few arbitrary choices. Not only does the selection procedure reflect individual choices, but also the division of the globe into transnational regions of vastly differing size and character evokes a specific appearance of world architecture. Thus this architectural collection is to be understood as a critical mosaic representing as a whole the entire evolution of world architecture from 1900-2000"--Bookjackets.
