The thirty-three projects illustrated in this book exemplify this emerging sensibility, which is examined in a penetrating essay by Terrence Riley, Chief Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, that places the new work in a broad historic and cultural perspective. More than thirty architects are represented in this international selection, and it includes a broad range of building types, scales, and technologies, from the small Leisure Studio created by a group of young Finnish architects to Renzo Piano's enormous Kansai International Airport in Japan

• Introduction Terence Riley
• Van Valkenburgh: radcliffe ice walls
• Johnson: ghost house
• Sejima: Saishunkan Seiyaku women's dormitory
• Maki: congress center
• Thanhauser and Esterson: definitions fitness enter 2
• Herzog and de Meuron: goetz collection
• Nouvel: cartier foundation for contemporary art
• Ito: ITM building
• Van Berkel: ACOM office building
• Holl: D. E. Shaw and company offices
• Herzog and de Meuron: signal box auf dem wolf
• Zumthor: Kunsthaus Bregenz
• Wolf: ABN-AMRO head office building
• Kaakko, Laine, Liimatainen, Tirkkonen: leisure studio
• Graham: two-way mirror cylinder inside cube
• Tschumi: glass video gallery
• Grimshaw: waterloo international terminal
• Abalos and Herreros: municipal gymnasium

• Yazdani: CineMania theatre
• Williams and Tsien: the world upside down
• Gehry: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
• Piano: Kansai International Airport
• Ito: Shimosuwa Municipal Museum
• Sanders: Kyle residence
• Gigon and Guyer: Kirchner Museum Davos
• Williams and Tsien: Phoenix Art Museum Sculpture Pavilion
• Ito: tower of the winds
• Adams: bus shelter IV
• Gould: floor plan
• Holl: Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art
• Foster: business promotion center
• Ortner and Ortner: museum of modern art
• Koolhaas: two patio villas