The design of sports facilities presents unique challenges to architects, including incorporating enormous spaces and meeting complex circulatory requirements. Architecture for Sport examines sport architecture throughout the world, featuring the design of stadiums, sports halls, swimming pools, and sports museums/institutes from some of the world's leading architects. Including essays from an international team of writers focusing on a particular aspect of sports design, as well as a full complement of plans, drawings, and photographs, the book offers comprehensive, insightful coverage of the built-in challenges of—and inspired solutions to— designing sports and sports-related structures.

Includes the work of such leading architects as Enric Miralles, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, and Massimiliano Fuksas. Features projects from around the world. Comprehensively illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs.