The Great Builders

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Kenneth Powell

Format: Book
Pages: 304
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: Oct 2011
Stock Code: 75881
ISBN: 9780500251799
Binding: Hardback

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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. This book, in the same series as The Great Naturalists and The Great Explorers, will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment.

About the Author

Kenneth Powell

Kenneth Powell is an architectural critic, consultant and historian based in London. He has written extensively about contemporary architecture for newspapers and journals in Britain and abroad and is the author of many books, including monographs on Richard Rogers, Edward Cullinan, Will Alsop and Ahrends Burton Koralek as well as New London Architecture and New Architecture in Britain. Actively involved in the field of conservation over many years, he is a former Director of The Twentieth Century Society and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.