@article{455759,
      author = {Powell, Ken,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455759},
      title = {The great builders /},
      publisher = {Thames & Hudson,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {455759},
      pages = {304 p. :},
      address = {London :},
      year = {2011},
}