The Great Builders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500251797 ISBN 13: 9780500251799

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

CELEBRATES THE CREATIONS OF FORTY ARCHITECT-ENGINEERS WHO HAVE BEEN PIONEERS IN AESTHETIC DESIGN AND THE APPLICATION OF MATERIALS. SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION MAKE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF SPECTACULAR SCOPE AND DEPTH, FROM THE DOME OF ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL TO THE ARRESTING ANGLES OF THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, FROM THE MONUMENTAL TAJ MAHAL TO KENGO KUMA’S ATTEMPTS “TO ERASE ARCHITECTURE,” TO FORTRESSES, BRIDGES, AND SKYSCRAPERS. THE CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE PRACTICING ARCHITECTS AND LEADING ACADEMICS, AND THEIR ESSAYS FOCUS ON THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS THROUGH HISTORY WHO HAVE SHAPED AND TRANSFORMED THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS OF STRUCTURES FAMOUS, REVOLUTIONARY, AND SURPRISING—INCLUDING ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND PRINTS AND MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY—BRING THE WORKS TO LIFE. ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES BOTH SUBTLE AND SPECTACULAR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DESIGNED WITH AN AUDIENCE IN MIND, AN INTENT TO INFLUENCE THE WAY WE SEE, THINK, MOVE, AND INTERACT; AND THE BUILDERS THEMSELVES CAN BE AS FASCINATING AS THEIR CREATIONS. MATHEMATICIAN AND VISIONARY, PHILOSOPHER AND ECOLOGIST, NATIONALIST, MODERNIST, RATIONALIST, DECONSTRUCTIVIST: THE CHARACTERS BEHIND THE BUILDINGS ARE MANY AND VARIED. FEATURING WORK BY FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, SHAH JAHAN, CHRISTOPHER WREN, KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL, JOHN FOWLER, GUSTAVE EIFFEL, LOUIS SULLIVAN, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, LOUIS KAHN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, EERO SAARINEN, FRANK GEHRY, NORMAN FOSTER, SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, AND MANY MORE. 150 FULL-COLOR AND 80 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

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'Beautifully decorated with maps, plans and photographs, all presented on a fine matte surface, and illustrating the simple assertion that developments in engineering push the frontiers of architecture. This is a point that cannot be overstated, and underpins every page of this excellent study of architecture's most outstanding exponents' - Burlington Magazine

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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. This book, in the same series as The Great Naturalists and The Great Explorers, will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500251797
• ISBN 13: 9780500251799
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Kenneth Powell