Beautiful Moves

"Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for "a pretty move for the love of God" when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in "beautiful moves", but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch. In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients that once would once have turned to large firms specializing in stadia instead began to hire A-list and…