BUILDING THE FUTURE

Pfammatter (buildig techology, Swiss Federal Ist. of Techology, Zurich) follows up his isightful The Makig of the Moder Architect ad Egieer with a peerless historical survey of moder architectural desig ad egieerig. Distilled from a careerlog series of lectures, Pfammatter's sprawlig, erudite treatise icorporates some 100 case studies, geerously supplemeted by high-quality photos, illustratios, ad techical drawigs. The case studies are grouped ito six thematic chapters aalyzig key buildig advaces of the past 200 years, such as icreasigly sophisticated uses of cocrete ad the evolutio of the glass curtai wall from a static facade to a "itelliget evelope." Pfammatter's multidiscipliary approach offers America studets of architecture ad egieerig a refreshigly iteratioal (tedig toward Eurocetric) perspective o the evolutio of their respective fields.