This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times. Rod Sheard

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shapin

* Includes the work of such leading architects as Enric Miralles, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, and Massimiliano Fuksas. * Features projects from around the w

The history of civilisations and places conveys the importance of the role the culture of sport and a cultivated management of leisure play in the definition of

This title contains 11 projects of the architect's work in the sphere of sport. A number of the stadia have been built especially for the European Football Cham