Architects category: 3350 books
Architects of Little Rock
1833-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects working in Little Rock from 1830 to 1950. Thirty-five architects are profiled, including George R. Mann, Thomas Harding, Charles L. Thompson, Max. F. Mayer, Edwin B. Cromwell, George H. Wittenberg, Lawson L....
Dare to be Different
The Albert Hong Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In this book, Dr Albert Hong tells his own story.
Today, he is prominent in his field, as chairman of RSP Architects Planners and Engineers (Pte) Ltd. His life began 80 years ago, in a humble medical clinic in Neil Road, Singapore. In the years between, he has achieved success in business based...
by Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Louis Kahn was one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, hailed as a master of materials, but also of light. "The plan of a building," he once said, "should be read like a harmony of spaces created in light." Here, in this essay by the legendary art critic Robert Hughes, is Kahn's story.
by Antonio Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
In the early 1900s, the population of Southern California exploded, and the cities grew at such a rapid pace that builders could hardly keep up. Among those who settled in the area were ten architects looking to make their marks on the world. Claud Beelman, a man who never received a college degree,...
by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Here is the story of America's greatest architects, whose designs and structures have changed the world - Charles Bulfinch, Benjamin Latrobe, Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, to name but a few. From the United States Capitol building, designed in Old World style, to modern...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits...
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of...
The Man in the Glass House
Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson--a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled cities
A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped...
Bruce Goff
Architecture of Discipline in Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as...
Arthur Erickson
An Architect's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher architect, was renowned internationally for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition, and his epic vision of architecture for people. Among his most celebrated large-scale works are three that helped to define Vancouver's...
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He...
by Barbara Isenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights...
Building Art
The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly...