TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell,Ken
TI  - The great builders
SN  - 9780500251799 (hbk.)
U1  - 721.0922 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson, Inc.
KW  - Architects
KW  - Biography
KW  - Architects and engineers
KW  - History
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Structural design
KW  - Structural engineering
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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