targeting six major modern architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this publication places ahead a distinct and insightful research of "neo-avant-garde" structure. It discusses the spectacle and extra which permeates modern structure in connection with the current aesthetic tendency for snapshot making, yet does so via utilising the tectonic of theatricality mentioned by way of the 19th-century German architect Gottfried Semper. In doing so, it breaks new floor by way of commencing up a discussion among the research of the prior and the layout of the current. The paintings of every mentioned architect is noticeable as addressing a historiographical challenge. To this finish, and this is often the second one very important element of this ebook, the selected constructions are mentioned by way of the thematic of the tradition of establishing (the tectonic of column and wall for instance) fairly the formal, and this via a dialogue that's educated via the newest to be had theories. Having set the classy implication of the tactics of the digitalization of structure, the book's end highlights "strategies" through which structure may possibly delay the entire outcomes of digitalization, and hence the changing into of structure as decoration by itself right.