The Great Builders

Herausgeber: Powell, Kenneth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique survey of forty architect-engineers who have been pioneers in both aesthetic design and technological innovation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780500294789
• ISBN-10: 050029478X
• Artikelnr.: 60403717

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
John Fowler . Concrete and Steel: Giuseppe Mengoni
William Le Baron Jenney
Gustave Eiffel
François Hennebique
Antoni Gaudí
Louis H. Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Auguste Perret
Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Konstantin Melnikov
Pier Luigi Nervi NewVisions: R. Buckminster Fuller
Ove Arup
Louis I.Kahn
Jean Prouvé
Oscar Niemeyer
Eero Saarinen
Frei Otto
Frank Gehry
Kenzo Tange
Norman Foster
Santiago Calatrava
Kengo Kuma.