The Great Builders
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The Great Builders

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Great Builders

About this book

The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth: from churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history. Here is Brunelleschi, who built the unbuildable dome of Florence Cathedral; Sinan, a Christian engineer who became chief architect to the Ottoman court; Joseph Paxton, scribbling down a design for the Crystal Palace, London, on a piece of blotting paper; and James Bogardus, an early American evangelist of the opportunities offered by cast-iron architecture. Rapid advances in industrial production inspired experiments with new materials and techniques, gradually allowing a whole new architecture to emerge: reinforced concrete, plate glass and steel were central to the creations of Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret and Mies van der Rohe, for instance; and, in the High-Tech architecture of the present day represented by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, among others computer-aided design has seemingly tested the boundaries of the possible.

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INDEX

All page numbers refer to the 2021 print edition
References in italics indicate illustration figure numbers.
Aalto, Alvar 192
Aberdeen 56
Abingdon Town Hall 43
Adler & Sullivan 122
Adler, Dankmar 122
Agra
Fort 38
Moti Masjid 38
Taj Mahal 8, 17, 35, 36, 37, 38–40; 4
Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management 171
Sarabhai House 145
Akbar 35, 38
Akbarabadi Mahal 38
Albert, Prince 69
Alberti, Leon Battista 20, 21, 27, 28
Alexander VI, Pope 28, 29
Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) 22–3
Allcard, John 70
Amiens 134
Cathedral 86
HĂ´tel de Ville 73
Amman, Queen Alia Airport 204
Ammann & Whitney 184
Anaheim, Disney Corporation offices 193
Angola, US Embassy 172
Antonio da Sangallo, the Elder 29, 30
Appleby 44
Archimedes, SS 80
Arezzo 30
Arras 49, 50
Art Deco 183
Art Nouveau 85–6, 123, 173
Arts and Crafts movement 11
Arup, Ove 13–14, 139, 155–6, 164–8, 202, 204, 205; 17
Asaf Khan 39
Astorga, Episcopal Palace 117
Ath 47
Athens
Acropolis 61
airport 184
Bad Hersfeld 189
Badger, Daniel 63, 66
Baker, Benjamin 91, 92
Baltard, Louis-Pierre 71
Baltard, Victor 10, 52, 71–5
Baltimore 28
Sun Iron Building 65
Banham, Reyner 138
Barberis, Charles 146
Barcelona 145
Casa Batlló 117–18; 13
Casa Calvet 117
Casa Vicens 116
Colonia GĂźell chapel 116, 118, 120
fish sculpture 194
GĂźell estate 116, 117
La Pedrera 117, 118
Parc GĂźell 118
Sagrada Familia 96, 116, 117, 119, 120
Teresian convent 117
Torre Bellesguard 117
Barlow, William H. 52, 69
Baroque 44
BarragĂĄn, Luis 171
Barry, Charles 83
Bath railway station 78
Bato, Hiroshige Museum of Art 214
Baton Rouge, Union Tank Car Company Dome 162
Baudot, Anatole de 12
Bauersfeld, Walther 162
Bauhaus 12 see also Gropius
Beaudouin, Eugène 175
Beaulieu 110
Behnisch, GĂźnter 188
Behrens, Peter 12, 135, 138
Beijing
airport 204
Olympic stadiums 168
BÊlanger, François-Joseph 51
Belle-Île-en-Mer 49
Belo Horizonte 179
Edificio Liberdade 180
San Francisco de Assis 180
Berenguer, Francesc 121
Berkeley, University of California in 189
Berlin
Altes Museum 60
Bauakademie 58, 60
‘eco-houses’ 190
Friedrichswerder Church 60
Neue Nationalgalerie 140
Neue Wache 59
Philharmonic concert hall 194
Reichstag 203–4
Schauspielhaus 60
SchlossbrĂźcke 60
Besançon 50
BĂŠzard, Jean-Louis 72
Bigot, Alexandre 135
Bilbao
Guggenheim Museum 156, 194
metro stations 204
Birkenhead Park 68
Birmingham 76
St Chad 84
Blaye 50
Bogardus, James 10, 53, 62–6, 103
Bolton Abbey 70
Bonar Bridge 55
Bordeaux 106, 144...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Authors
  4. Other Titles of Interest
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Pioneers of Structure
  8. Plates Section One
  9. The Age of Iron
  10. Concrete and Steel
  11. New Visions
  12. Plates Section Two
  13. Contributors
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. List of Illustrations
  16. Index
  17. Copyright