50 architects you should know /

By: Kühl, IsabelContributor(s): Lowis, Kristina | Thiel-Siling, SabineMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2008Description: 171 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 9783791340432 (pbk.); 3791340433 (pbk.)Other title: Fifty architects you should knowUniform titles: 50 Architekten, die man kennen sollte. English. Subject(s): Architects -- Biography | ArchitectureLOC classification: NA40 | .K8413 2008
Contents:
Filippo Brunelleschi -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Donato Bramante -- Michelangelo -- Andrea Palladio -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- Christopher Wren -- Balthasar Neumann -- Nicolas Ledoux -- Thomas Jeffereson -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Gottfried Semper -- Otto Wagner -- Daniel Burnham -- Antoni Gaudí --Louis Sullivan -- Victor Horta -- Frank LLoyd Wright -- Auguste Perret -- Walter Gropius -- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe -- Le Corbusier -- Gerrit Rietveld -- Richard Neutra -- Alvar Aalto -- Louis I. Kahn -- Philip Johnson -- Oscar Niemeyer -- Eero Saarinen -- Kenzo Tange -- Ieoh Ming Pei -- Günter Behnisch -- Casar Pelli -- Frank O. Gehry -- Aldo Rossi -- Richard Rogers -- Richard Meier -- Norman Foster -- Von Gerkan, Marg Und Partner -- SOM -- Rafael Moneo -- RenzoPiano -- Toyo Ito -- Tadao Ando -- Rem Koolhaas -- Jean Nouvel -- Daniel Libeskind -- Steven Holl -- Zaha Hadid -- Herzog & De Meuron.
Review: "Bold structures, dignified splendor innovative designs - in all eras there have been architects of outstanding vision who have decisively shaped our towns and cities worldwide. In this volume, 50 of the most important architects since the Renaissance are brought together and represented by their major works. Lively accounts of their designs and careers are supplemented by additional information about architectural styles and historical contexts, making this book a unique and highly accessible work of reference."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Translated from the German by Christine Shuttleworth"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Filippo Brunelleschi -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Donato Bramante -- Michelangelo -- Andrea Palladio -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- Christopher Wren -- Balthasar Neumann -- Nicolas Ledoux -- Thomas Jeffereson -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Gottfried Semper -- Otto Wagner -- Daniel Burnham -- Antoni Gaudí --Louis Sullivan -- Victor Horta -- Frank LLoyd Wright -- Auguste Perret -- Walter Gropius -- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe -- Le Corbusier -- Gerrit Rietveld -- Richard Neutra -- Alvar Aalto -- Louis I. Kahn -- Philip Johnson -- Oscar Niemeyer -- Eero Saarinen -- Kenzo Tange -- Ieoh Ming Pei -- Günter Behnisch -- Casar Pelli -- Frank O. Gehry -- Aldo Rossi -- Richard Rogers -- Richard Meier -- Norman Foster -- Von Gerkan, Marg Und Partner -- SOM -- Rafael Moneo -- RenzoPiano -- Toyo Ito -- Tadao Ando -- Rem Koolhaas -- Jean Nouvel -- Daniel Libeskind -- Steven Holl -- Zaha Hadid -- Herzog & De Meuron.

"Bold structures, dignified splendor innovative designs - in all eras there have been architects of outstanding vision who have decisively shaped our towns and cities worldwide. In this volume, 50 of the most important architects since the Renaissance are brought together and represented by their major works. Lively accounts of their designs and careers are supplemented by additional information about architectural styles and historical contexts, making this book a unique and highly accessible work of reference."--BOOK JACKET.