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The great builders /

The great builders / edited by Kenneth Powell. - 304 pages : illustrations (some color), ports (some color) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. From churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, this title includes masterpieces from all over the world. It covers 700 years of architectural history.

9780500251799 (hbk.) 0500251797 (hbk.)

2011922601


Architects--Biography.
Architects and engineers--History.
Architectural design--History.
Structural design--History.
Structural engineering--History.

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