This atlas, devoted to the most recentarchitecture of America, is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. With the same intellectual coordinates as the previous book, which attempted to reflect at the same time the ‘state of the world’ and the ‘state of the art’, this publication gathers a broad selection of works and projects along with ten texts by prominent experts on the different countries or regions of the continent, from the Canadian Arctic to the Chilean Patagonia.

Initiated with the book dedicated to Asia and the Pacific, the series will continue with the release of the third volume of this architectural journey, covering Africa and the Middle East, and the fourth and last, which will complete the itinerary exploring the architectures of Europe and come to an end at the finis terrae of the Iberian Peninsula.