Screen LibraryArchitects from A to Z /
A comprehensive guide to the major names, schools, and structures in the field of architecture. Each entry focuses on a seminal figure and one of his or her career-defining works. Arranged alphabetically and easy to use, the book also features a glossary of architectural movements and technical term...
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Prestel,
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| Publisher Address: | Munich ; London ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A comprehensive guide to the major names, schools, and structures in the field of architecture. Each entry focuses on a seminal figure and one of his or her career-defining works. Arranged alphabetically and easy to use, the book also features a glossary of architectural movements and technical terms. The large, superbly reproduced color illustrations allow readers to examine the details of each building it celebrates. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 216 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9783791347738 379134773X |
| Index Number: | NA40 |
| CLC: | K816.16 |
| Call Number: | K816.16/C368 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Paul Cattermole -- Alvar Aalto -- Robert Adam -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Galeazzo Alessi -- Will Alsop -- Tadao Andō -- Paul Andreu -- Ron Arad -- Gunnar Erik Asplund -- Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott -- Luis Barragán -- Charles Barry -- Geoffrey Bawa -- Peter Behrens -- Hendrik Petrus Berlage -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Piet Blom -- Gottfried Böhm -- Francesco Botta -- Richard Boyle -- Donato Bramante -- Filippo Brunelleschi -- Michelangelo Buonarroti -- William Burges -- Daniel Hudson Burnham -- Decimus Burton -- William Butterfield -- Santiago Calatrava -- Douglas Cardinal Pierre François-Henri Labrouste -- Carl Gotthard Langhans -- Henning Larsen -- Denys Lasdun -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe -- John Lautner -- Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris) -- Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis -- Daniel Libeskind -- Adolf Loos -- Berthold Lubetkin -- Edwin Lutyens -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Rick Mather -- Thom Mayne -- John McAslan -- Ağa Mehmed -- Richard Meier -- Konstantin Melnikov -- Erich Mendelsohn -- Giuseppe Mengoni -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Enric Miralles Moya -- José Rafael Moneo Vallés -- Glenn Murcutt -- John Nash -- Richard Neutra -- Oscar Ni |