Contemporary World: Architecture (Architecture Générale)

- A comprehensive survey of architecture around the world from the late 1960s to the end of the 20th century, organized by building function
- Presents over 660 recent public and private buildings
- Offers a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes - advances in building technology, shifting demographics and increasing levels of global communication - that are shaping today's built environment
- Thirteen chapters cover Visual Arts, Performance, Learning, Religion, Consumerism, Living, Workplace, Industry, Leisure, Transport, Sport, Civic Realm and Towers