Caruso St John are convinced that today s architects should be able to choose from the endless array of cultural possibilities. So is this book. Its aim is not merely to document the buildings and projects that Caruso St John have undertaken in Britain and Continental Europe since the early 1990s. Rather, philosophy, Caruso St. John are sceptical that abstraction and simplification are sufficient to make an architecture.

Principal of the London based architecture office Caruso St John, together with Peter St John, Adam Caruso has develop an intense activity as writer, focusing his thoughts on the architectural practice and the updated of some figures of the so called other tradition of the Modern Movement.

This publication is conceived as a major source to understand Wiel Arets’ architecture through the presentation of his principal writings, a selection of built work, projects, and other materials connected to his research and teaching. These materials are complemented with some of the most significant critical writings from the past ten years, plus a new text resulting from an exchange of writings between Arets and Xavier Co s t a .

Santiago Calatrava, one of the most renowned contemporary architects, is also responsible for a large number of bridges in several cities of the world Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Haarlem, Jerusalem, Orléans, Seville, Tel Aviv and Valencia, on which his popularity is largely based. Santiago Calatrava.

The thematic scope here is confined to auteur architecture; while conscious of the reductive nature of this category, in appearance at least, it is nevertheless my conviction that this highly specific limitation of the subject serves in fact as a kind of inductor or poetic catalyst, by virtue of the density as sign attaching to it.