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The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth: from churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. Here is Brunelleschi, who built the 'unbuildable' dome of Florence Cathedral, Sinan, a Christian engineer who became chief architect to the Ottoman court, Joseph Paxton, scribbling down a design for the Crystal Palace, London, on a piece of blotting paper, and James Bogardus, an early American evangelist of the opportunities offered by cast-iron architecture.Rapid advances in industrial production inspired experiments with new materials and techniques, gradually allowing a whole new architecture to emerge: reinforced concrete, plate glass and steel were central to the creations of Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret and Mies van der Rohe, for instance, and, in the High-Tech architecture of the present day - represented by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, among others - computer-aided design has seemingly tested the boundaries of the possible.
| EAN : | 9780500294789 |
| Katalógové číslo: | 1313653 |
| Rok vydania: | 2021 |
| Jazyk: | EN |
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