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The great builders / edited by Kenneth Powell.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NA40 .G74 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architects--Biography.
- Architects.
- Architects and engineers--Biography.
- Architects and engineers.
- Architectural design--History.
- Architectural design.
- Structural design--History.
- Structural design.
- Architecture and technology--History.
- Architecture and technology.
- Engineers--Biography.
- Engineers.
- History.
- Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
- Contents:
- Filippo Brunelleschi, the father of Renaissance architecture
- Qavam al-Din Shirazi, architect to the House of Tamerlane
- Giuliano da Sangallo, wood sculptor, architect and student of antiquity
- Sinan, master architect of the Ottoman Empire
- Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor and builder
- Christopher Wren, scientist. architect and engineer
- Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, foremost military engineer of the 17th century
- Thomas Telford, innovator of cast-iron bridge design
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, genius and engineer
- James Bogardus, inventor of cast-iron architecture
- Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener and architect
- Victor Baltard, municipal architect of Paris
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, visionary railway engineer and ship designer
- A. W. N. Pugin, realist and revolutionary
- Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, gothic as constructive will
- John Fowler, renowned developer of urban railways
- Giuseppe Mengoni, architect of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
- William el Baron Jenney, developed Chicago's distinctive skyscrapers
- Francois Hennebique, symbol of reinforced concrete
- Antoni Gaudi, architect-craftsman with a unique creative style
- Louis H. Sullivan, ornamentalist, skyscraper designer and advocate of an "American" style
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of the space within
- Auguste Perret, an aesthetic language and doctrine for concrete construction
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last great inventor of form
- Le Corbusier, in concrete or stone, wood or metal?
- Konstantin Melnikov, leap into the unknown
- Pier Luigi Nervi, transfigurations of an engineer
- R. Buckminster Fuller, design for the future
- Ove Arup, the outsider and the art of the impossible
- Louis K. Kahn, architect of the poetics of action and construction
- Jean Prouve, the constructive imagination
- Oscar Niemeyer, radical critic of Modernist orthodoxies
- Eero Saarinen, exuberance and technological innovation
- Frei Otto, innovator of tensile and membrane structures
- Fran Gehry, designer of expressively iconic buildings
- Kenzo Tange, the architect of megastructures
- Norman Foster, invention and innovation in structure and materials
- Santiago Calatrava, a universal designer
- Kengo Kuma, an architecture of materiality and immateriality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibligraphic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780500251799 :
- 0500251797 :
- OCLC:
- 755712903
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