By Julio Fajardo

Collins Design, $39.99

A softcover tome featuring the work of 72 high-profile and "rising star" architects or firms, rendered in photographs, floor plans and perspective drawings, with a scant paragraph of bio for each. Not much interpretation -- none, actually -- but a good visual survey of vanguard international architecture in 2010.

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