Name: The Great Builders (en Inglés)
SKU: 53460162
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Author: Powell Kenneth
ISBN: 9780500294789

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Thames And Hudson Ltd

Autor

Powell Kenneth

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780500294789

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The Great Builders (en Inglés)

Powell Kenneth (Autor) · Thames And Hudson Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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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.