Francesca Serrazanetti Knihy

Influenced by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, and literature, the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind chooses drawing to put his ideas and thoughts into practice, stating that architectural drawing is in itself a creative work. Drawings which constitute "architectural explorations" – from Micromegas to Chamber Works and Sonnets in Babylon – are presented in this book along with those on "real" architecture, documenting the creative process of prestigious projects such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the World Trade Center redevelopment in New York.

The mental space of painting, expressed in works that experiment with a new idea of existing urban panorama in search of visionary aesthetics. Zaha Hadid, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, is world famous for projects such as the MAXXI in Rome, the Fire Station in Vitra or the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati.

Jo Coenen is a Dutch architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology (graduating in 1975), and later held professorships at TU Karlsruhe, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. Between 2000 and 2004 Coenen was Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands. In 1995 he won the BNA Kubus award. He is honorary member of the Association of German Architects.