This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan,including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to someof the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywherein the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurablepace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Throughinterviews, conversations, and visits to architecture studios across thecontinent, "Instant Asia" documents the most recent built projects of theemerging generation of designers shaping the architectural identity ofAsia today.