New Forms: Plans and Details for Contemporary Architects

Created by The Plan, one of Europe’s leading architecture magazines, 'New Forms' does what most books on cutting-edge architecture do not: it reveals the details of a building’s design and construction.

Most architects today are savvy to the power of digital renderings and media, but few can present drawings in a manner that can be understood by those working outside the project. These drawings reveal what images and photographs cannot: how some of the world’s most challenging buildings have been constructed.

• From double-curvature shapes to geometrically demanding structures, twenty projects by the world’s most exciting practices are shown in exacting detail through specially created plans, sections and elevations.
• Includes detailed plans of such buildings as Rem Koolhaas’s Casa de Musica in Porto, Norman Foster’s Chesa Futura apartments in St Moritz and UN Studio’sVilla NM in upstate NewYork.
•The information has been culled and created in close collaboration with the architects, with a view to highlighting each building’s particular innovations.