Product Description: Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials...read more

Product Description: Whereabouts is a study of eight prominent young North American architecture firms. For the most part working within a vocabulary of late modernism, these firms -- two from each point of the compass -- have been strongly influenced by regional concerns...read more

Amazon.com Review: New York: A Guide to Recent Architecture is one in a series of lovely little guides to many of the world's major cities created by British publisher Ellipsis. The information contained here ranges from brief perspectives on the city's architectural history to tips on which maps are best for visitors and how to navigate the local public transit system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Updated and rephotographed edition of a massively successful book: the definitive reference to the city's contemporary architectural scene. Covering a diverse range of enormous- to diminutive-scale projects, this book is an urban study rather than just a building guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chicago has been at the forefront of architectural progress for more than a century. This book documents the city's recent architecture, starting with the new O'Hare Airport terminal, Playboy Enterprise's headquarters, giant office towers in the downtown Loop, and more. Exactly 100 buildings, all completed within the last ten years are described and illustrated, with location and access information. (view table of contents)