Contemporary architecture

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in contemporary architecture style, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao, with the Maman, a huge spider by Louise Bourgeois.

Contemporary architecture is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time. The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and spaces (broadly speaking - since the 1980s) which are optimized for current use.