What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailing—walls, doors, windows, roofs, and stairs—can transform the merely ordinary into the extraordinary.

Including work by David Chipperfield, Herzog and de Meuron, Morphosis, ShoP, and many other well-known firms, Details in Contemporary Architecture extensively explores the common as well as more exotic architectural detailing.