Through its story-telling dimension, this book traces the last 20 years of Western architecture focusing attention on the current situation that includes designers' eclecticism and style, the star system, urban and landscape design as well as the influence on architecture exerted by the so-called 'digital revolution'. A number of historical events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11th and the energy crisis underline the narrative flow of the book, as the urgency of these events pose critical questions of architecture.