THE BOOKCASE  

 
 
Architects on Architects
By Susan Gray
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
 

Search:
Keywords:

Image

Image

Buy the book at amazon.com through arcspace, and a small portion of the proceeds from your purchase will go to support our efforts to keep you informed.

 

An ideal book for architecture aficionados, Architects on Architects captures the soul, inspiration, and majesty of architecture. The book, with Foreword by Paul Goldberger, is a study of how the world's greatest architects influenced the work of others, and why, told in the architect's own words.

Traveling and looking at so many buildings, both new and old, I find this book a wonderful companion.

The contributors discuss the career-inspiring achievements of their mentors; designers of some of the most famous structures on earth. They delve into their own design philosophy, and how the genius of others affected their careers, their goals, as well as their lives. Each original essay is beautifully illustrated with photographs of both the architect's work and that of his mentor, providing a visually forum for comparison and learning.

The essays:

Diana Agrest on Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
Tadao Ando on Le Corbusier
Henry N. Cobb on H.H. Richardson
Norman Foster on Paul Rudolph
Mario Gandelsonas on Mies van der Rohe
Michael Graves on Le Corbusier
Vittorio Gregotti on Peter Behrens
Charles Gwathmey on Louis I. Kahn
Hugh Hardy on William Van Alen
Arata Isozaki on Le Corbusier
Carlos Jimenez on Luis Barragan
Sumet Jumsai on Le Corbusier
Ricardo Legorreta on Jose Villagran
William S.W. Lim on Le Corbusier
Richard Meier on Frank Lloyd Wright
William Pedersen on Rockefeller Center
Cesar Pelli on Eero Saarinen
James Polshek on Louis I. Kahn
Antoine Predock on the Alhambra
Raj Rewal on the Unknown Architect of Fatehpur Sikri
Richard Rogers on the Maison de Verre
Der Scutt on Paul Rudolph
Robert A.M. Stern on Paul Rudolph
Hans Busso von Busse on Paul Rudolph

Susan Gray (New York, NY) is an architectural photographer and writer who has worked with many large corporations and magazines.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Check the price at amazon.com

European customers click here:

image

Check the price at amazon.co.uk