With their designs for Adidas and the Metro Group, the Stuttgart-based architecture firm Wulf & Partner has distinguished itself with a pragmatic, playful, adaptable and sustainable practice. This is the company's first comprehensive overview (as well as the first book in a new series), and includes Wulf & Partner's new convention center in Stuttgart, which has garnered enormous attention.

As one of the most famous German architectural practices, Stuttgart-based Lederer & Ragnarsdottir & Oei (LRO) has distinguished itself through dramatic, sweeping facades and unique forms that have had wide popular appeal but haven't always adhered to what is fashionable. Their statement is clear and iconoclastic: -Creating a locality is absolutely crucial to our projects. To do that, architecture does not have to be reinvented by force. Instead, we try to learn from the long tradition of building without falling into historicism.- Of their numerous successful projects, the best known are...

Stefan Behnisch and partners have an international reputation for their classic -Stuttgart School- design--focused on open, transparent and atmospherically convivial buildings--as well as their energy-efficient, ecologically sound orientation. This volume presents all of the important international projects by Behnisch Architects from 1996 to the present.

Text by Falk Jaeger. Photographs by Christian Richters.

Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingardh is nevertheless not a -pure product- of Swedish architecture--the solutions he devises for his various projects are too multifarious and cosmopolitan. Eschewing both dogma and predefined individual style, with each new building Wingardh surprises his clients and admirers. This monograph reveals his blend of function, sustainability and aesthetics.

In the last three decades, Auer + Weber + Assoziierte have devised structures ranging from cultural and research institutions to hotels, residences and larger urban designs--each based on differing conceptions such as sculptural volumetric bodies or structurally open environments. Their ESO hotel in Chile has become particularly celebrated since it was featured in the final scene of the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.

A sequel to 3 Stadia 2010, Next 3 Stadia highlights new projects by German architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, and engineers Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, famed worldwide for their stadium construction. These new three stadia, located in Warsaw, Kiev and Bucharest, are examples of state-of-the-art sports venues.

The story of the development of the O&O world of ideas, focusing on the latest buildings and projects.