Edited by Luis Fernández-Galiano, this is an updated trilingual edition of the essential historical reference work first published to coincide with an exhibition at MoMA. Divided into chronological sections with titles such as Years of Conflict, Years of Hope and Years of Uncertainty, pivotal buildings and designers are illustrated, as well as themes and undercurrents in Spanish architecture, from National-Catholicism and Franco to Barcelonas re-flowering and recent globalisation, in essays by Fernández-Galiano, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre, Kenneth Frampton, Peter Buchanan, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, David Cohn, Francois Chaslin and Richard Ingersoll.