The Great Builders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500251797 ISBN 13: 9780500251799

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

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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Product Description:

From Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) and the breathtaking dome of Florence Cathedral, to the inventive structures of Norman Foster (b.1935) and the poetics of movement in bridges by Santiago Calatrava (b.1951), Kenneth Powell describes the careers of 40 great builders whose engineering skills have been crucial to their success. Written by a distinguished team of architectural historians, the book celebrates the work - and illustrates many individual structures - by figures such as Vauban, Wren, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Gehry.

Review:

'Contains a wealth of information ... very satisfying'
--Shetland Times

Structurally solid and 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500251797
• ISBN 13: 9780500251799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Kenneth Powell