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Imprint:	London : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Description:	304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Architects -- Biography. Architects and engineers -- Biography. Architectural design -- History. Structural design -- History. Architecture and technology -- History. Engineers -- Biography. Architects. Architects and engineers. Architectural design. Architecture and technology. Engineers. Structural design. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11375526

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Other authors / contributors:	Powell, Ken, 1947-
ISBN:	9780500251799 0500251797
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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. A celebration of the lives and careers of forty pioneering designers provides a global tour of the great structures of the world, from St. Paul's Cathedral to the Sydney Opera House and the Taj Mahal.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Pioneers of Structure
The father of Renaissance architecture
Architect to the House of Tamerlane
Wood sculptor, architect and student of antiquity
Master architect of the Ottoman Empire
Mughal emperor and builder
Scientist, architect and engineer
Foremost military engineer of the 17th century
The Age of Iron
Innovator of cast-iron bridge design
Genius and engineer
Inventor of cast-iron architecture
Landscape gardener and architect
Municipal architect of Paris
Visionary railway engineer and ship designer
Realist and revolutionary
Gothic as constructive will
Renowned developer of urban railways
Concrete and Steel
Architect of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Developed Chicago's distinctive skyscrapers
Engineering mastermind of tall metal structures
Symbol of reinforced concrete
Architect-craftsman with a unique creative style
Ornamentalist, skyscraper designer and advocate of an 'American' style
Architect of the space within
An aesthetic language and doctrine for concrete construction
The last great inventor of form
In concrete or stone, wood or metal?
Leap into the unknown
Transfigurations of an engineer
New Visions
Design for the future
The outsider and the art of the impossible
Architect of the poetics of action and construction
The constructive imagination
Radical critic of Modernist orthodoxies
Exuberance and technological innovation
Innovator of tensile and membrane structures
Designer of expressively iconic buildings
The architect of megastructures
Invention and innovation in structure and materials
A universal designer
An architecture of materiality and immateriality
Contributors
Select Bibliography
Sources of Illustrations
Index

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