The quintessential Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the countries traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. This title documents a leading light of the global architecture scene and offers insight into interpretations of Japans ancient building traditions.

Richard Meier (b.1934) is one of America's most distinguished architects and the winner in 1984 of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. This detailed monograph is a comprehensive study of his work from 1965-2002 and covers 90 of his buildings including his best-known Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. The book documents all stages of Meier's career including his early private homes in the 60s and his work in the early 1970s when he came to prominence as one of the New York Five, whose new interpretation of the modern tradition shaped an alternative to the high-rise East Coast buildings of the time. The monograph continues with Meier's more recent larger-scale projects in both American and Europe. These include the Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona (2000), Perry Street Condominiums in New York (2002) and the Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy (2004), with its distinctive curved form. Several essays by Meier provide an insight into the architect's approach to designing buildings including his preference for the use of white, which he feels enhances one's perception of the basic architectural elements. An introductory essay by the influential critic Kenneth Frampton discusses Meier's architecture and its tectonic, painterly exuberance. A detailed chronology and bibliography complete this generously-illustrated record of Richard Meier's career.

The latest installment of Rizzoli International Publications best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects, Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation, composed by renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Thirty-two residential, commercial, and civic projects in all are featured, including the Arp Museum in Germany, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, the San Jose City Hall, the Broad Art Center at UCLA, and new master plans for Newark, New Jersey, and Manhattan's East Side. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton and celebrated critic Paul Goldberger, and famed artist Frank Stella provides a personal postscript. A professional chronology and selected bibliography complete this elegant and comprehensive monograph on a true modern American master.