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This
exhibition presents large-scale models, drawings, and photographs
of twenty-five skyscrapers from around the world. Designed within
the last decade, these buildings redefine the genre for the twenty-first
century.
Organized
by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture
and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and Guy Nordenson, Structural
Engineer, New York, and Associate Professor of Architecture and
Structures, Princeton University.
The
exhibition is the second in a series of five exhibitions presented
by The Lily Auchincloss Fund for Contemporary Architecture. The
publication is made possible by Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown. The
accompanying educational programs are made possible by BNP Paribas.
Pictured
above:
Renzo Piano
| Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architect; Paul Nuttall
| Ove Arup & Partners, engineer. London Bridge Tower, London,
England. View from the street (computer-generated image). Design
2000–03; projected completion 2009. 1,016 feet (310 meters)
high.
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