The Great Builders
Published on 3. October 2011
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-500-25179-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
With 229 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 186 mm
Weight
1200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-25179-9 (9780500251799)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kenneth Powell is an architectural historian, critic and consultant.
He has written extensively on 20th-century and contemporary British
architecture, and is the author of books on the work of Norman Foster,
Richard Rogers and other major British architects. He is an honorary
fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has served on the
Council of the Architectural Association.
He has written extensively on 20th-century and contemporary British
architecture, and is the author of books on the work of Norman Foster,
Richard Rogers and other major British architects. He is an honorary
fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has served on the
Council of the Architectural Association.
Content
Pioneers of Structure: Filippo Brunelleschi; Qavam al-Din Shirazi; Giuliano da Sangallo; Sinan; Shah Jahan; Christopher Wren; Sebastien Vauban The Age of Iron: Thomas Telford; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; James Bogardus; Joseph Paxton; Victor Baltard; Isambard Kingdom Brunel; A. W. N. Pugin; Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc; John Fowler Concrete and Steel: Giuseppe Mengoni; William Le Baron Jenney; Gustave Eiffel; Francois Hennebique; Antoni Gaudi; Louis H. Sullivan; Frank Lloyd Wright; Auguste Perret; Mies van der Rohe; Le Corbusier; Konstantin Melnikov; Pier Luigi Nervi New Visions: R. Buckminster Fuller; Ove Arup; Louis I. Kahn; Jean Prouve; Oscar Niemeyer; Eero Saarinen; Frei Otto; Frank Gehry; Kenzo Tange; Norman Foster; Santiago Calatrava; Kengo Kuma.