This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics – site and surroundings, space and massing, programme and circulation, fenestration and use of natural light – to give an insight into how each design works as a cohesive whole. Appealing to architects, students and everyone who appreciates great buildings, The Elements of Modern Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for generations to come.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Architectural Analysis 01 Sarabhai House | 1951–55 Ahmedabad, India Le Corbusier 02 Canova Museum | 1955–57 Possagno, Treviso, Italy Carlo Scarpa 03 Sydney Opera House | 1957–73 Sydney, Australia Jørn Utzon 04 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1943–59 New York, USA Frank Lloyd Wright 05 Leicester Engineering Building | 1959–63 Leicester, England Stirling & Gowan 06 Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1959–66 La Jolla, California, USA Louis Kahn 07 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 1956–58 Humlebaek, Denmark Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert 08 Yoyogi National Gymnasium | 1961–64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange 09 Seinäjoki Town Hall | 1958–65 Seinäjoki, Ostrobothnia, Finland Alvar Aalto 10 St Mary’s Cathedral | 1961–64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange 11 Hedmark Museum | 1967–79 Hamar, Norway Sverre Fehn 12 Indian Institute of Management | 1963–74 Ahmedabad, India Louis Kahn 13 Bagsvaerd Church | 1974–76 Bagsvaerd, Copenhagen, Denmark Jørn Utzon 14 Milan House | 1972–75 Cidade Jardim, São Paulo, Brazil Marcos Acayaba Arquitetos 15 HSBC Office Building | 1979–86 Hong Kong, China Foster Associates 16 Neue Staatsgalerie | 1977–84 Stuttgart, Germany James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates 17 House at Martha’s Vineyard | 1984–88 Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA Steven Holl Architects 18 Church on the Water | 1985–88 Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 19 Lloyd’s of London Office Building | 1978–86 London, England Richard Rogers 20 Arab World Institute | 1981–87 Paris, France Jean Nouvel 21 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art | 1987–95 Barcelona, Spain Richard Meier 22 Vitra Fire Station | 1990–93 Weil am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid Architects 23 Lord’s Media Centre | 1994–99 London, England Future Systems 24 Menara UMNO | 1995–98 Penang, Malaysia Kenneth Yeang, T. R. Hamzah & Yeang 25 Dancing Building | 1992–96 Prague, Czech Republic Frank O. Gehry & Associates / Vlado Milunic 26 Eastgate | 1991–96 Harare, Zimbabwe Pearce Partnership 27 Thermal Baths in Vals | 1986–96 Vals, Switzerland Peter Zumthor 28 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | 1991–97 Bilbao, Spain Frank O. Gehry & Associates 29 ESO Hotel | 1998–2002 Cerro Paranal, Chile Auer+Weber 30 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre | 1996–99 Riversdale, NSW, Australia Murcutt Lewin Lark 31 Jewish Museum Berlin | 1988–99 Berlin, Germany Daniel Libeskind 32 Quadracci Pavilion | 1994–2001 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Santiago Calatrava 33 B2 House | 1999–2001 Büyükhusun, Ayvac?k, Turkey Han Tümertekin 34 CaixaForum | 2001–3 Madrid, Spain Herzog & de Meuron 35 New Museum | 2001–7 New York, USA SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) 36 Scottish Parliament Building | 1998–2002 Edinburgh, Scotland EMBT / RMJM 37 Yokohama Port Terminal | 1995–2002 Yokohama, Japan FOA (Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo) 38 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 1996–2002 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 39 Kunsthaus Graz | 2000–3 Graz, Austria Spacelab Cook-Fournier / ARGE Kunsthaus 40 Linked Hybrid | 2003–9 Beijing, China Steven Holl Architects 41 Santa Caterina Market | 1997–2005 Barcelona, Spain EMBT 42 Virgilio Barco Library | 1999–2001 Bogotá, Colombia Rogelio Salmona 43 Southern Cross Station | 2001–7 Melbourne, Australia Grimshaw Architects / Jackson Architecture 44 Meiso no Mori Crematorium | 2004–6 Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan Toyo Ito & Associates 45 Civil Justice Centre | 2001–7 Manchester, England Denton Corker Marshall 46 Green School | 2005–7 Badung, Bali, Indonesia PT Bambu 47 Mimesis Museum | 2007–9 Paju Book City, Republic of Korea Álvaro Siza / Castanheira & Bastai / Jun Sung Kim 48 Juilliard School & Alice Tully Hall | 2003–9 New York, USA Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXFOWLE 49 uMkhumbane Museum | 2003–17 Durban, South Africa Choromanski Architects 50 41 Cooper Square | 2004–9 New York, USA Morphosis Architects 51 Oslo Opera House | 2002–8 Oslo, Norway Snøhetta 52 MAXXI | 1998–2009 Rome, Italy Zaha Hadid Architects 53 Sancaklar Mosque | 2011–13 Istanbul, Turkey Emre Arolat Architecture 54 Micro Yuan’er / Micro Hutong | 2013–16 Beijing, China Zhang Ke (ZAO/standardarchitecture) 55 Harbin Opera House | 2010–15 Harbin, China Ma Yansong (MAD Architects)