Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a global style of architecture as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the art-architecture complex provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis.