Architects from A to Z

Title
Architects from A to Z

Personal Author EPSB
Paul. Cattermole

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.

Year Published
2013

Physical Description
216 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Note
Includes index.

Contents
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 Niemeyer -- Jean Nouvel -- Joseph Olbrich -- Ragnar Östberg -- Carlos Ott -- Frei Otto -- John Outram -- Andrea Palladio (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola) -- John Pawson -- Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei -- Gustav Peichl -- César Pelli -- Auguste Perret -- Renzo Piano -- Jože Plečnik -- Gio Ponti -- Bart Prince -- Augustus Pugin -- Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli -- Gerrit Thomas Rietveld -- Richard Rogers -- Aldo Rossi -- Lev Rudnev -- Paul Rudolph -- Eero Saarinen -- Eliel Saarinen -- Giovanni Battista Sacchetti -- Moshe Safdie -- Fariborz Sahba -- Carlo Scarpa -- Hans Scharoun -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- George Gilbert Scott -- Harry Seidler -- Gottfried Semper -- Richard Norman Shaw -- Álvaro Siza -- Robert Smirke -- John Soane -- Johan Otto von Spreckelsen -- Rudolf Steiner -- James Stirling -- Louis Henry Sullivan -- Thomas Smith Tait -- William Talman -- Kenzo Tange -- Quinlan Terry -- Charles Harrison Townsend -- Bernard Tschumi -- Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Raymond Unwin -- Lal Chand Ustad -- Jørn Utzon -- William Van Alen -- John Vanbrugh -- Henry van de Velde -- Robert Venturi -- Juan de Villanueva -- Rafael Viñoly -- Charles F.A. Voysey -- Otto Wagner -- Thomas Ustick Walter -- Alfred Waterhouse -- Aston Webb -- Philip Webb -- Michael Wilford -- Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre (Wilkinson Eyre) -- Colin Alexander St. John Wilson -- John Wood the Younger -- Christopher Wren -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Postnik Yakovlev -- Minoru Yamasaki -- Dominikus Zimmermann -- Peter Zumthor -- Chronology.
 
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 -- William Chambers -- Pierre Chareau -- Serge Chermayeff -- David Chipperfield -- Wells Coates -- Charles Robert Cockerell -- Amyas Connell -- Peter Cook -- Thomas Cubitt -- Edward Cullinan -- Alexander Jackson David -- Philibert Delorme (also de L'Orme) -- Willem Marinus -- Bill Dunster -- Charles and Ray Eames -- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel -- Peter Eisenman -- Ralph Erskine -- terry Farrell -- Norman Foster -- Captain Francis Fowke -- Massimiliano Fuksas -- Richard Buckminster Fuller -- Ange-Jacques Gabriel -- Jean-Louis Charles Garnier -- Antoni Gaudí (Antoni Gaudí i Cornet) -- Frank O. Gehry -- Frederick Ernest Gibberd -- James Gibbs -- Ernö Goldfinger -- Michael Graves -- Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather (Greene & Greene) -- Nicholas Grimshaw -- Walter Gropius -- Zaha Hadid -- Jules Hardouin-Mansart -- Nicholas Hawksmoor -- Thomas Heatherwick -- Agustín Hernández -- Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron -- Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann -- Charles Henry Holden -- Steven Holl -- Hans Hollein -- Michael Hopkins -- Victor Horta -- Arata Isozaki -- Toyo Ito -- Arne Jacobsen -- Helmut Jahn -- Thomas Jefferson -- Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint -- Eva Jiřičná -- Philip Johnson -- Inigo Jones -- Filippo Juvarra -- Iftikhar M. Kadri -- Louis Kahn -- Jan Kaplický -- Kendrick Bangs Kellogg -- Swoo Guen Kim -- Michel de Klerk -- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff -- Pierre Koenig -- Rem Koolhaas -- Eric Kuhne -- Kisho Kurokawa.

Subject
Architecture.

Added Author
Forty, Simon.

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.

ISBN
9783791347738

Publisher
Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2013]


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