这本野心勃勃的出版物现在经过修订和扩充，通过专门请人徒手绘制的草图剖析了55幅现代杰作。这些草图展示了那些为建筑赋予意义和耐力的原理和细节。过去七十年中出现的有影响力的建筑通过详细探讨它们的关键特征（地基和周围环境，空间和聚集，程序和流通，开窗和对自然光的使用）对它们进行了分析，这些建筑涵盖六大洲，涉及从住宅到歌剧院的各种建筑类型。通过分析从而让读者深入了解每种设计是如何凝聚成一体的。《现代建筑的要素》吸引了建筑师，学生和每个欣赏杰出建筑的人，将成为未来几代人的重要参考书和灵感来源。

This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics – site and surroundings, space and massing, programme and circulation, fenestration and use of natural light – to give an insight into how each design works as a cohesive whole. Appealing to architects, students and everyone who appreciates great buildings, The Elements of Modern Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for generations to come.