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008 080313s2008 nyu 000 0 eng
010 _a 2008924897
020 _a9783791340432 (alk. paper)
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
049 _aEY8Z
050 4 _aNA40
_b.K84 2008
100 1 _aKuhl, Isabel.
245 1 0 _a50 architects you should know /
_cIsabel Kuhl, Kristin Lowis, Sabine Thiel-Siling.
246 3 _aFifty architects you should know
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bPrestel Pub.,
_c2008.
300 _a171 p. :
_bill. (some col.) ;
_c25 cm.
505 0 _aFilippo 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.
520 _aStarting 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
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949 _aNA40 .K84 2008
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