Perhaps more than any other city, Tokyo expresses the breadth of ideas and the range of styles and techniques of contemporary architecture. Japanese architects and a cast of distinguished foreigners have been given opportunities to build in a unique urban context, and have produced some of their most interesting work here. This book covers almost 100 outstanding projects from 1983 to the present-a collection of the best, the worst, and most intriguing. The selection represents various social, cultural and economic trends as well as the design issues lying be hind the facades.