Architecture Today is divided thematically into 16 chapters, offering an incisive critique of the predominant trends, stylistic and regional, of the last 25 years.

Built in 1984, Frank Gehry's California Aerospace Museum exemplifies his irreverent, exploded-then-reassembled sensibilities in architecture. Irregular, angular forms break from their implied boundaries and overlap in unexpected, provocative ways.

Three iconic examples of modern architecture are considered here in terms of social vision and humanism, comparing the approaches of three different architects to building for specific communities.