This book provides a sequel to the popular first issue devoted to staircases, with a completely new array of designs that demonstrate this particular feature's seemingly inexhaustible capacity to stimulate the architect's creative drive. The current availability of high-performance materials and increasingly sophisticated technology have entailed designs of considerable visual impact and greater attention to the details, such to the point that in many cases the staircase has a direct impact on the overall design of the domestic interior or public space that hosts it, owing to its expressive force and outstanding compositional characteristics.