Architects have always dreamed of shaping the future, of building Utopian worlds filled with seemingly impossible structures that break with the past to propel mankind far into the twenty-first century and beyond "Buddings for Tomorrow" reviews forty such visionary projects that appear to come from futures that mankind has so far обюнь only imagined Spread across nineteen countries, over thirty architects, from famous names to little-known innovators, have combined the latest technological advances with their boundless creative energy to bring their constructions into being In so doing they have blurred the line that separates the realities of our everyday environment from the cinematic realms of science fiction These buildings are as radically different from each other as they are from accepted norms Some make inspired use of natural forms or traditional methods and materials to create bio-morphic compositions that can seem ancient, unworldly or even alien Bart Prince's extraordinary organic wooden houses rub shoulders with Frank Gehry's billowing titanium gallery, and Santiago Calatrava's concrete beetle-cum-planetarium faces Eugene Tsui's latter-day Dimetradon Others favour the sleek futuristic design vision of the 1950s and 1960s: here we find Oscar Niemeyer's art gallery, floating like a polished flying saucer near Rio de Janeiro, and Spacelab's Kunsthaus, Graz, its smooth acrylic skin a rippling mass of light and shadow But here too are buildings that offer forceful expressions of a future dominated by technology, where the nuts and bolts of architecture are on display for all to see The external steel workings of Richard Rogers' instantly recognizable Lloyds Building are joined by the tectonic plates of Terry Farrell's The Deep and the dramatic spurred arms of the Falkirk Wheel Though diverse in form and function, all these structures are united in their quest to challenge convention and break the mould Wherever their inspiration has been drawn, be it NASA capsules or nautilus shells, these buildings show that imagination and creativity can work on a variety of scales and budgets, and can collectively set a thought-provoking agenda for an alternative architecture of tomorrow With 200 colour illustrations Иллюстрации Автор Пол Кэттермол Paul Cattermole.  Мини-версияИздательство: Thames and Hudson, 2006 г Суперобложка, 192 стр ISBN 978-0-500-34228-2, 0-500-34228-8 Язык: Английский Формат: 248x280 Мелованная бумага, Цветные иллюстрации.