This book offers an exciting journey into the most recent architectural achievements, seen in their complexity and plurality, and described in the most objective and truthful way. The development of contemporary architecture is presented as it commenced more than a century ago, as it tried to reconcile democratic ideals with the forces of the Industrial Era. In contrast to many books on the modern-day art of building, the development of architecture is not described chronologically here, but, rather, independently for each selective architectural trend. This allows a better explanation of some.

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Path Toward Modernity
• Modernism
• Search for a New Expression in Architecture at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Modernism after World War II
• Criticism of Modernism in the 1960s
• Postmodernism
• High-Tech Architecture
• Expressionism
• Deconstruction (Deconstructivism) in Architecture
• Folding in Architecture
• New Modernism
• Minimalism
• Summary
• Bibliography