Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - Modernism and Beyond: The Plurality of Contemporary Architectures -- PART I: Major Developments after Modernism -- 1 Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959 -- 2 Post-Modernism: Critique and Reaction -- 3 High-Tech: Modernism Redux -- 4 Deconstruction: The Project of Radical Self-Criticism -- 5 Greening Architecture: The Impact of Sustainability -- 6 Postcolonial Theories in Architecture -- PART II: Architectural Developments around the World -- 7 Architecture in North America since 1960 -- 8 Architectural Developments in Latin America: 1960-2010 -- 9 The Place of Commonplace: The Ordinary as Alternative Architectural Lens in Western Europe -- 10 Dutch Modern Architecture: From an Architecture of Consensus to the Culture of Congestion -- 11 Metaphorical Peripheries: Architecture in Spain and Portugal -- 12 Architecture in Switzerland: A Natural History -- 13 Architecture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since 1960 -- 14 Finland: Architecture and Cultural Identity -- 15 Architecture in Africa: Situated Modern and the Production of Locality -- 16 Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia(1960-2010) -- 17 Old Sites, New Frontiers: Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Iran -- 18 Beyond Tropical Regionalism: The Architecture of Southeast Asia -- 19 Internationalism and Architecture in India after Nehru -- 20 Architecture in China in the Reform Era: 1978-2010 -- 21 Architecture in Post-World War II Japan -- 22 Edge of Centre: Architecture in Australia and New Zealand after 1965 -- Index.