A critical look at contemporary architecture in Germany that highlights 50 buildings built between 1970 and 1996. Texts by Gerd de Bruyn and Gerd Zimmermann. Architects include Alvar Aalto, Tadao Ando, Fritz Auer, Günter Behnisch, Heinz Bienefeld, Gottfried Böhm, Hans-Busso von Busse, Erick van Egeraat, Johann Eisele, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Meinhard von Gerkan, Nicholas Grimshaw, Walter Gropius, Zaha M. Hadid, Herman Hertzberger, Thomas Herzog, Jacques Herzog, Johannes Hölzinger, Hans Hollein, Toyo Ito, Barbara Jakubeit, Jochem Jourdan, Uwe Kiessler, Josef Paul Kleihues, Hans Kollhoff, Peter Kulka, Joachim Langner, Daniel Libeskind, Volkwin Marg, Richard Meier, Pierre de Meuron, Carlfried Mutschler, Gustav Peichl, Hans Scharoun, Karljosef Schattner, Axel Schultes, Peter C. von Seidlein, Alvaro Siza, Otto Steidle, James Stirling, Helga Timmermann, Zvonko Turkali, Oswald Mathias Ungers, and Carlo Weber. Illustrated in black-and-white. Text in English.