The monograph as megaproject probably has reached its current apex in this stylish, humongous book-and-CD-ROM set that is devoted to every last detail of the work of Norman Foster. This 814-page brick of a book, is divided rather evenly between nearly 30 years of writings on Foster's work from colleagues as former partner Rogers, R. Buckminster Fuller, Rodolfo Machado and Martin Pawley (to name but a few), and writings and speeches by Foster on everything from the process behind designing; his response to the classicist architectural preferences of Prince Charles; and his appreciation of other architects as Fuller, Antonio Gaudì, and Paul Rudolph. But what really makes this mountain of text enlightening is the accompanying CD-ROM, which allows to click-and-drag through a vast and dazzling collection of color photographs.
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