When we first began assembling this guide
to contemporary American architecture, we
were faced with two enormous questions: why
produce such a document in the first place and how
to go about doing it?
The first question was easy to answer: no such
guidebook currently exists. Although there are travel
guides, regional guides, congratulatory guides
produced by local architectural societies, guides to
historical architecture, at this writing there is no
guidebook intended for use in the field by the
traveler with a particular interest in contemporary
architecture.
This guide does not pretend to be encyclopedic. It is
selective, portable and is perhaps most useful
because it gives the exact address of listed buildings
and shows a picture of almost every one. The reader
can judge in advance whether the building is of
interest. In the case of major cities, locations are
shown on street maps, allowing the traveler to group
his site visits efficiently.
The book gives an overview, representing important
contemporary buildings throughout the country and
provides a bibliography of local guidebooks in the
event the traveler wishes to examine the architecture
of a city or region in greater depth.
This is a pocket book-a field manual for people in
search of those architectural trends which have found
realization during the last forty years. Convenient to
use and simple to read, it provides the first clues to a
more detailed quest.
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