HSPLS site
HSPLS site
 Search 
 My Account 
 Databases 
 HI Newspaper 
 eBooks/Audiobooks 
 Learning 
 PC Reservation 
 Reading Program 
   
BasicAdvancedPowerHistory
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
  Summary
  More Content
 
 
 Subjects
 
  •  
  • Architects -- Biography.
     
  •  
  • Architects and engineers -- Biography.
     
  •  
  • Architectural design -- History.
     
  •  
  • Structural design -- History.
     
  •  
  • Architecture and technology -- History.
     
  •  
  • Engineers -- Biography.
     
     Browse Catalog
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  The great builders /...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    The great builders / edited by Kenneth Powell.
    View full image
    London : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
    Subjects
  • Architects -- Biography.
  •  
  • Architects and engineers -- Biography.
  •  
  • Architectural design -- History.
  •  
  • Structural design -- History.
  •  
  • Architecture and technology -- History.
  •  
  • Engineers -- Biography.
  • ISBN: 
    9780500251799 :
    0500251797 :
    Description: 
    304 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
    Contents: 
    Filippo Brunelleschi, the father of Renaissance architecture -- Qavam al-Din Shirazi, architect to the House of Tamerlane -- Giuliano da Sangallo, wood sculptor, architect and student of antiquity -- Sinan, master architect of the Ottoman Empire -- Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor and builder -- Christopher Wren, scientist. architect and engineer -- Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, foremost military engineer of the 17th century -- Thomas Telford, innovator of cast-iron bridge design -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, genius and engineer -- James Bogardus, inventor of cast-iron architecture -- Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener and architect -- Victor Baltard, municipal architect of Paris -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, visionary railway engineer and ship designer -- A.W.N. Pugin, realist and revolutionary -- Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, gothic as constructive will -- John Fowler, renowned developer of urban railways -- Giuseppe Mengoni, architect of Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II -- William el Baron Jenney, developed Chicago's distinctive skyscrapers -- Francois Hennebique, symbol of reinforced concrete -- Antoni Gaudi, architect-craftsman with a unique creative style -- Louis H. Sullivan, ornamentalist, skyscraper designer and advocate of an "American" style -- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect of the space within -- Auguste Perret, an aesthetic language and doctrine for concrete construction -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last great inventor of form -- Le Corbusier, in concrete or stone, wood or metal? -- Konstantin Melnikov, leap into the unknown -- Pier Luigi Nervi, transfigurations of an engineer -- R. Buckminster Fuller, design for the future -- Ove Arup, the outsider and the art of the impossible -- Louis K. Kahn, architect of the poetics of action and construction -- Jean Prouve, the constructive imagination -- Oscar Niemeyer, radical critic of Modernist orthodoxies -- Eero Saarinen, exuberance and technological innovation -- Frei Otto, innovator of tensile and membrane structures -- Fran Gehry, designer of expressively iconic buildings -- Kenzo Tange, the architect of megastructures -- Norman Foster, invention and innovation in structure and materials -- Santiago Calatrava, a universal designer -- Kengo Kuma, an architecture of materiality and immateriality.
    Requests: 
    0
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.Status 
    Hawaii State LibraryArt, Music & Recreation720.922 GrChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
     Powered by Dynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal