An overview of cutting-edge buildings which focuses on small-scale, non-standard, idiosyncratic contemporary buildings and structures. Nearly 40 buildings are featured, each is presented in terms of its innovation and uniqueness, as well as its application toward standard building types.

New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.

Prefab presents a series of innovative homes and concepts that boldly demonstrate that this is not your grandmother's prefab, offers a glimpse into the history of prefabricated housing over the last century, and reveals a wealth of practical and attractive alternatives to the status quo. Prefab discusses architects, builders, and designers such as Walter Gropius and Philippe Starck, examines the .

Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. This book argues that the time has come to re-evaluate the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history.

Tadao Ando is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This book shows how, combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic.