Visionary Architecture (Blueprints of the Modern Imagination) - Neil Spiller

For the past six decades, architects have created an astonishing, influential range of design ideas, architectural constructs and urban utopias. Since the Second World War, technology has caught up with our imagination: such practitioners as Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid, whose works were often considered too experimental or controversial to construct, are now creating real, iconic buildings.