这本书是纽约市**新建筑的壮观摄影作品集，介绍了当今几家**公司打造的项目。从Bjarke Ingels Group的VIA West 57到ShoP Architects的巴克莱中心，从Diller Scofidio + Renfro的High Line到SOM的One World Trade Center，纽约市一直是本世纪最激动人心的新建筑的所在地。这本书剖析了塑造该市街道和天际线的50多个项目，其中包含每座建筑物的彩色照片以及关于其意义的简短且内容丰富的文字。 Renzo Piano Building Workshop，Ateliers Jean Nouvel，Foster + Partners，Selldorf Architects，Gehry Partners和Adjaye Associates只是最近在纽约市完成项目的其中几家公司。这座城市的游客和居民会发现这本书是一本令人振奋的指南，而建筑迷们将获得对世界上**的建筑师在过去15年中为该城市带来的前所未有的发展的更全面的理解。

The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architects

Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional considerations of postwar American architecture with traditional elements such as arches and colonnades. Yamasaki’s celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and ’60s, including the Lambert–St. Louis Airport and the U.S. Science Pavilion in Seattle, garnered popular acclaim.

Despite this initial success, Yamasaki’s reputation began to decline in the 1970s with the mixed critical reception of the World Trade Center in New York, one of the most publicized projects in the world at the time, and the spectacular failure of St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Apartments, which came to symbolize the flaws of midcentury urban renewal policy. And as architecture moved in a more critical direction influenced by postmodern theory, Yamasaki seemed increasingly old-fashioned. In the first book to examine Yamasaki’s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his personal struggles—including with racism—and the tension his work ultimately found in the divide between popular and critical taste.