Product Description

*Behind the scenes of an emotional international architecture competition

*Never before has a competition design been so thoroughly documented

*Large-format book with more than 500 illustrations in color, including plans and drawings

The emotional and complex legacy of September 11, 2001, made the efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center site an unprecedented challenge for the architecture profession. This book chronicles the work of one team of designers. THINK, a collaboration of four distinguished principals: Shigeru Ban, Ken Smith, Frederic Schwartz and Rafael ViÒoly, was a finalist in the master planning competition.

From each designerís immediate response to the loss of the Twin Towers, to the teamís work for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporationís Innovative Design Study, this book presents an insider's view on the intense efforts to respond to the publicís demand for planning and symbolic architecture over the eighteen months between the attacks and the selection of a master plan in February 2003.

This book will have wide appeal to the general public as well as to those involved in architecture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1677753 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-25
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 328 pages