Visionary Architecture: Unbuilt Works of the Imagination

Burden, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0070089949 / ISBN 13: 9780070089945

Published by McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visionary Architecture: Unbuilt Works of the Imagination
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070089949
• ISBN 13: 9780070089945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A panoramic exploration of works of the imagination throughout history. Its emphasis is on how each architect, renderer, artist, and culture envisioned the future, hence the preponderance of buildings and urban cityscapes depicted are "unbuilt". A range of work is included, from baroque stage sets to the film "Metropolis", M.C. Escher, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, virtual L.A., and more. There are sketches, paintings, models, drawings, and computer images in a range of media and stylistic techniques, and a timeline integrates architectural events alongside their historical and cultural counterparts.

About the Author

Ernest Burden (New York, NY), Assoc. AIA, is an architect, author and consultant specializing in marketing and project delivery strategies. He is the author of many books on design and presentation, including McGraw-Hill's Entourage: A Tracing File and Color Source Book. He is also the author of three illustrated dictionaries for McGraw-Hill: Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Illustrated Dictionary of Architectural Preservation, and Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and Construction.