Overview
American Architecture Now is a provocative oral history of recent American architecture, related through a series of informal interviews conducted with fourteen distinguished architects by writer, editor, teacher and TV interviewer Barbaralee Diamonstein. These conversations, always informative and often amusing, were originally videotaped before a live audience at the New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design. Each of the architect's work is considered; the topics addressed in the interviews include: the impact of architecture on urban life, government and zoning regulations, energy consumption, recycling, historic preservation, "a sense of place," the economics of housing, the relationship between architecture and the arts, and the implications of "post modernism."