50 architects you should know / Isabel Kuhl, Kristin Lowis, Sabine Thiel-Siling.

Filippo Brunelleschi -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Donato Bramente -- Michelangelo -- Andrea Palladio -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- Christopher Wren -- Balthasar Neumann -- Nicolas Ledoux -- Thomas Jefferson -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Gottfried Semper -- Otto Wagner -- Daniel Burnham -- Antoni Gaudi -- 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 -- Gunter Behnisch -- Cesar Pelli -- Frank O. Gehry -- Aldo Rossi -- Richard Rogers -- Richard Meier -- Norman Foster -- Van Gerkan, Marg ud Partner -- SOM (Skidmore, Owens & Merrill) -- Rafael Moneo -- Renzo Piano -- Toyo Ito -- Tadao Ando -- Rem Koolhaus -- Jean Nouvel -- Daniel Libeskind -- Steven Holl -- Zaha Hadid -- Herzog & De Meuron.

Starting with the Renaissance, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them. This accessible and lively survey takes readers around the world and through history, from Filippo Brunelleschi to Antoni Gaudi to Frank Gehry. Double-page spreads feature full-color illustrations, informative sidebars, and a timeline that extends throughout the book. A concise and accessible architectural history, this book is a fascinating look at the enormous variety of ways architects have helped define their eras. -- Publisher description