A leading Mexican architect's photographic panorama of the past century's greatest buildings

This beautifully designed volume offers an architect's portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lopéz Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great buildings by some of the past century's finest architects are depicted with engaging and exquisite compositional drama. Lopéz Baz's photographs are accompanied by phrases and thoughts from prominent architects that reflect on architecture and life.Featured architects include: Tadao Ando, Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer, David Chipperfield, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Charles Eames, Antón García-Abril, Frank Gehry, Giles Gilbert Scott, Teodoro González de León, Herzog & De Meuron, Alberto Kalach, Kisho Kurokawa, Javier García Lascuráin, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Norten, Jean Nouvel, Juan O'Gorman, Renzo Piano, Eero Saarinen, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Kenzo Tange, TEN Arquitectos, José Villagrán García and Rafael Viñoly.