What makes an architect tick? What is the state of
architecture today? How do architects view each other s
work? No one can answer these questions better than the
practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as
Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid,
Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and
others offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives on
contemporary architecture and the architects roles in shaping
the state of the art today. Each interview focuses on the
unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by
images of their most important works. With a no-holds-barred
approach the author obtains interesting details about their
ideas on architecture in general, from where they get their
inspiration, to what formative experiences led them to become
architects in the first place. Informative, accessible, and
endlessly fascinating, this collection offers a chance to
compare, contrast, and get to know the architects that are
shaping the world we live in.