Landmarks (Architecture in Asia for the 21st Century)

Landmarks celebrates fifty twenty-first-century architectural landmarks across Asia, where architecture and its cultural, social, and ecological impact are constantly being redefined. Every region of the continent is represented through groundbreaking projects, from spectacular buildings by world-famous architects, such as OMA's iconic CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, to smaller-scale initiatives by lesser-known names that respond to landscape, community, and heritage, including a housing scheme for homeless children in India.

This book redefines what we think of as a "landmark," expanding beyond the traditional idea of monumental urban architecture to include buildings that embrace nature, build communities, and regenerate heritage. Importantly, all the selected projects reflect their regional specificities, global resonances, and the growing importance of the built environment in how we address economic disparity, cultural erasure, environmental collapse, and other urgent problems of our time. Ultimately, they also reveal a broader understanding of what architecture can represent: not just power and visibility, but also identity, history, and our relationship to place and the natural world.