Many of the architects popular in the early 1990s, when I was in undergraduate architecture school, have gone on to great success building more and bigger this century. Think Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Coop Himmelb(l)au, among others. Every now and then I wonder about the role of publications in providing outlets for their work and ideas, providing the fuel for their later success. There's the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition and catalog from MoMA, Andreas Papadakis's AD titles, and some titles by MAK Vienna director Peter Noever. One of the last is this title, which is based on the "Architecture Today" lectures at the MAK in 1991. All the biggies are here: Coop, Hadid, Libeskind, Mayne (with Morphosis partner Michael Rotondi), as well as Peter Eisenman, Jean Nouvel, Michael Sorkin, Bernard Tschumi and Lebbeus Woods. Most out of place among this group is Sorkin, more influential as a critic than an architect at the time. He is, somwhat oddly, omitted from Philip Johnson's epilogue where he comments, albeit briefly, on the rest of the architects (he calls Hadid "the most daring, romantic intellectual of all the group"). With this omission I can't help but recall a Sorkin radio interview where he stated flatly that he didn't like Johnson; I guess the feeling was mutual. ( )