The great builders / edited by Kenneth Powell.
Powell, Ken, 1947-
2011
NA40 .G74 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The great builders / edited by Kenneth Powell.
ISBN 9780500251799
0500251797
Imprint London : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Language English
Description 304 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
Call Number NA40 .G74 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 620.0092
Summary 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. --- Book Description.
A celebration of the lives and careers of forty pioneering designers provides a global tour of the great structures of the world, from St. Paul's Cathedral to the Sydney Opera House and the Taj Mahal.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Powell, Ken, 1947-
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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 Le Baron Jenney, developed Chicago's distinctive skyscrapers
François 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 Prouvé, 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.

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