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A revised and updated edition of Sir John Summerson's classic book.

Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the classical style has long dominated the history of western architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Sir John Summerson’s timeless text, as relevant today as it was when first published, distils the visual language of architecture into its core classical elements, and illustrates that building throughout the ages express an awareness of the ‘grammar’ of style and its rules even if they vary, break or poetically contradict them. From the original edifices of Greece and Rome to the recapitulations and innovations of the Renaissance; the explosive rhetoric of the Baroque to the grave statements of Neo-classicism; and finally, the exuberant eclecticism of the Victorians and Edwardians to the 'stripped Neo-classicism' of some of the moderns; Summerson explains how every period has employed classical language to make their statement.

With a new introduction by academic and architectural historian Alan Powers, this introduction continues to be one of the defining texts on the subject and is essential reading for all students of architecture.

About the Author:

Sir John Newenham Summerson, CBE was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian Era. He was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.

Contents List:

Preface
1. The Essentials of Classicism
2. The Grammar of Antiquity
3. Sixteenth-Century Linguistics
4. The Rhetoric of the Baroque
5. The Light of Reason – and of Archaeology
6. Classical into Modern
Glossary
Notes on the Literature of Classical Architecture
Sources of Illustrations

The only color guide a designer will ever need; The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition has been completely updated with Pantone colors and new text.

The Complete Color Harmony: Pantone Edition is the latest in Rockport Publishers' best-selling Color series. This edition has been completely revised from start to finish, and now features new text by Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. And the color "moods" that she writes about in each chapter are based and matched with Pantone colors. The book expands on previous editions for the most comprehensive color reference to date.

This edition includes information on creating special effects, as well as an entirely new section devoted to the psychology of color. Eiseman helps readers determine their best color choices and suggests why some colors may inspire their creativity while others don't. The book includes new color palette sections along with expanded and updated color trends.

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The Complete Color Harmony: Deluxe Edition is the ultimate deluxe guide to color, featuring curated palettes and valuable information on the powerful effects of color.

This premium anniversary edition of The Complete Color Harmony gives you the color explorations, insights, and palettes from the original version in a deluxe new package that includes a pullout poster, gatefold foreword by internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Stuart Semple, and all-new image references.

The Complete Color Harmony was the first book published by the acclaimed design publisher Rockport Publishers, and has gone on to become an essential reference for generations of designers. This special edition of that classic reference celebrates Rockport Publisher’s 40th anniversary.

Get an introduction to using the color wheel and discover the key aspects of color, such as warm, cool, pale, and bright. Then, delve into moods and color and see how a wide variety of palettes can come across as earthy, powerful, regal, calm, dependable, and more.

In this book you’ll discover:
- Hundreds of organized color palettes that can be used for a variety of art and design projects.
- Why certain colors attract.
- How colors evoke certain moods.
- Advice on choosing the best colors to work with.
- A CMYK process color chart and color swatches to make choosing colors and palettes easy.

With all the expert information in this convenient portable guide, you’ll feel confident in every color choice.

About the Author:

Tina Sutton speaks on u201cThe Psychology of Coloru201d at many school, businesses, and museums. She writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe Magazine.

Even great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting.

The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.

This extensively revised new edition covers what Monty believes are the most important aspects of gardening today. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned gardener, it's time to get your green-fingered hands dirty!

A comprehensive gardening guide that no gardener should be without:

- An introductory chapter that explains the essentials of organic gardening practice
- A structure chapter that shows you how to define space in your garden with hard landscaping and natural options, such as trees, hedges, and topiary
- Discover all different types of flowering plants explaining how to design with them, combine, plant, and care for them
- How to grow fruits and vegetables with in-depth crop-by-crop explanations and which tried-and-tested varieties to choose from

Packed with beautiful illustrations and practical gardening tips, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment. He covers everything from planning the space and crop rotation to pruning fruit canes and staking peas.

Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.

Design Your Dream Garden

Although organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, this new edition has a new emphasis on gardening for wildlife and the impact of global warming on the garden. This is a go-to guide for anyone seeking Monty's gardening advice and the perfect gardening gift for any plant lover, regardless of their experience or budget.

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Over 50 step-by-step recipes for stunning outdoor planters of all shapes and sizes, in Artisan's bestselling flower recipe book format.

We're taking the Recipe Book series outside! In The Container Garden Recipe Book, Lana Williams of the Oakland-based Tender Gardener offers readers dozens of step-by-step recipes for lush outdoor planters, from classic terra-cotta pots to window boxes, urns, bowls, and more. There are recipes specifically designed to adorn your porch or patio (a rustic birdcage-cum-hanging basket, a stately Japanese maple planted in a painted terra-cotta urn) and others that are perfect for backyard entertaining (an elegant tabletop trough of succulents, a concrete water garden that's sure to be a conversation starter). And with Lana as their guide, readers' yards will never be bare thanks to creative designs for all seasons, from urns bursting with spring bulbs to a summer trough brimming with fresh herbs and an heirloom pumpkin converted into the perfect home for fall blooms.

And recreating these stunning designs couldn't be simpler! Each recipe includes a detailed ingredients list and step-by-step instructions, along with hundreds of photos showing where and how to place each plant. Also included is foundational information on planting techniques, care instructions, choosing the right container, as well as plant spotlights highlighting fool proof options for all climates and seasons, from spring bulbs to evergreens.

About the Author:

Lana Williams is the owner of The Tender Gardener, a plant shop and design company that opened in 2020 in Oakland, California. She leads local workshops on container gardening, plant care basics, repotting, plant design principles, wreath making, and flower arranging. She has taught online plant care classes at Creativebug. When she is not tending to her garden or greenhouse, you can find her in her studio painting and making ceramics. Follow her on Instagram at @The_Tender_Gardener.

Growing flowers for cutting brings the pleasures of the season indoors and cuts out the air miles associated with many shop-bought blooms. This book turns the spotlight on the best perennials and woody plants which return year after year with little effort or waste, offer valuable habitats to garden wildlife and bring a natural quality to arrangements. 

Rachel Siegfried, owner of Green & Gorgeous flower farm, began her career as an estate gardener and in this book she shares her selection of 128 rigorously trialled plants and her garden-led philosophy that together bring such exceptional results. Cut flower classics such as peonies and dahlias rub shoulders with daisies, climbers, grasses and fruit blossom. Her exquisite arrangements capture the essence each plant making the most of characterful stem twists and branching tendrils – testament to years of expert botanical observation and hands in the soil.

Beautiful photographs, many by Eva Nemeth, capture the seasonal diversity and natural ease that are such a hallmark of this thoroughly contemporary approach to cut flowers. Whether your goal is to have something to pick from your garden each week of the year or start a cut flower business, the inspiration to get started and expert advice you need is here.

About the Author:

Rachel Siegfried has worked in horticulture for 25 years and has experience in design, landscaping , nursery work and productive horticulture. In 2008 she founded Green and Gorgeous, a flower farm and floral design studio in Oxfordshire. Here, she and her partner Ashley Pearson grow hundreds of varieties, carefully selected for their cut flower credentials, on four acres of land. The flowers they produce are sold directly to the public through their farm shop, used for wedding work and as teaching material in their popular workshops. Rachel’s gardening background brings a unique perspective which puts seasonality and sustainability front and centre of her work.

The Designer’s Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at 30 colours key to art and graphic design.

Organized by spectrum, in colour-by-colour sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing colour range and palette variations.

Chapters detail each colour’s creative history and cultural associations, with examples of colour use that extend from the artistic to the utilitarian — whether the turquoise on a Reid Miles album cover or the avocado paint job on a 1970s Dodge station wagon.

A practical and inspirational resource for designers and students alike, The Designer’s Dictionary of Color opens up the world of colour for all those who seek to harness its incredible power.

About the Author:

Sean Adams is a founding partner of the award-winning California design firm AdamsMorioka and has been cited as one of the 40 most important people shaping design internationally. A former AIGA national board member and president of AIGA Los Angeles, he teaches at ArtCenter College of Design and is a frequent lecturer and competition judge. Sean is the coauthor of Logo Design Workbook and Color Design Workbook and author of the series Masters of Design. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

The world’s best buildings created from 1950 to the present, dissected and analysed through specially commissioned freehand drawings

This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from a 1955 residence in India to a 2015 opera house in China, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics – site and surroundings, space and massing, programme and circulation, fenestration and use of natural light – to give an insight into how each design works as a cohesive whole. Appealing to architects, students and everyone who appreciates great buildings, The Elements of Modern Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for generations to come.

Contents List:

Introduction: Architectural Analysis
01 Sarabhai House | 1951–55 Ahmedabad, India Le Corbusier
02 Canova Museum | 1955–57 Possagno, Treviso, Italy Carlo Scarpa
03 Sydney Opera House | 1957–73 Sydney, Australia Jørn Utzon
04 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1943–59 New York, USA Frank Lloyd Wright
05 Leicester Engineering Building | 1959–63 Leicester, England Stirling & Gowan
06 Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1959–66 La Jolla, California, USA Louis Kahn
07 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 1956–58 Humlebaek, Denmark Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert
08 Yoyogi National Gymnasium | 1961–64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange
09 Seinäjoki Town Hall | 1958–65 Seinäjoki, Ostrobothnia, Finland Alvar Aalto
10 St Mary’s Cathedral | 1961–64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange
11 Hedmark Museum | 1967–79 Hamar, Norway Sverre Fehn
12 Indian Institute of Management | 1963–74 Ahmedabad, India Louis Kahn
13 Bagsvaerd Church | 1974–76 Bagsvaerd, Copenhagen, Denmark Jørn Utzon
14 Milan House | 1972–75 Cidade Jardim, São Paulo, Brazil Marcos Acayaba Arquitetos
15 HSBC Office Building | 1979–86 Hong Kong, China Foster Associates
16 Neue Staatsgalerie | 1977–84 Stuttgart, Germany James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates
17 House at Martha’s Vineyard | 1984–88 Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA Steven Holl Architects
18 Church on the Water | 1985–88 Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
19 Lloyd’s of London Office Building | 1978–86 London, England Richard Rogers
20 Arab World Institute | 1981–87 Paris, France Jean Nouvel
21 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art | 1987–95 Barcelona, Spain Richard Meier
22 Vitra Fire Station | 1990–93 Weil am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid Architects
23 Lord’s Media Centre | 1994–99 London, England Future Systems
24 Menara UMNO | 1995–98 Penang, Malaysia Kenneth Yeang, T. R. Hamzah & Yeang
25 Dancing Building | 1992–96 Prague, Czech Republic Frank O. Gehry & Associates / Vlado Milunic
26 Eastgate | 1991–96 Harare, Zimbabwe Pearce Partnership
27 Thermal Baths in Vals | 1986–96 Vals, Switzerland Peter Zumthor
28 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | 1991–97 Bilbao, Spain Frank O. Gehry & Associates
29 ESO Hotel | 1998–2002 Cerro Paranal, Chile Auer+Weber
30 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre | 1996–99 Riversdale, NSW, Australia Murcutt Lewin Lark
31 Jewish Museum Berlin | 1988–99 Berlin, Germany Daniel Libeskind
32 Quadracci Pavilion | 1994–2001 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Santiago Calatrava
33 B2 House | 1999–2001 Büyükhusun, Ayvac?k, Turkey Han Tümertekin
34 CaixaForum | 2001–3 Madrid, Spain Herzog & de Meuron
35 New Museum | 2001–7 New York, USA SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa)
36 Scottish Parliament Building | 1998–2002 Edinburgh, Scotland EMBT / RMJM
37 Yokohama Port Terminal | 1995–2002 Yokohama, Japan FOA (Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo)
38 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 1996–2002 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
39 Kunsthaus Graz | 2000–3 Graz, Austria Spacelab Cook-Fournier / ARGE Kunsthaus
40 Linked Hybrid | 2003–9 Beijing, China Steven Holl Architects
41 Santa Caterina Market | 1997–2005 Barcelona, Spain EMBT
42 Virgilio Barco Library | 1999–2001 Bogotá, Colombia Rogelio Salmona
43 Southern Cross Station | 2001–7 Melbourne, Australia Grimshaw Architects / Jackson Architecture
44 Meiso no Mori Crematorium | 2004–6 Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan Toyo Ito & Associates
45 Civil Justice Centre | 2001–7 Manchester, England Denton Corker Marshall
46 Green School | 2005–7 Badung, Bali, Indonesia PT Bambu
47 Mimesis Museum | 2007–9 Paju Book City, Republic of Korea Álvaro Siza / Castanheira & Bastai / Jun Sung Kim
48 Juilliard School & Alice Tully Hall | 2003–9 New York, USA Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXFOWLE
49 uMkhumbane Museum | 2003–17 Durban, South Africa Choromanski Architects
50 41 Cooper Square | 2004–9 New York, USA Morphosis Architects
51 Oslo Opera House | 2002–8 Oslo, Norway Snøhetta
52 MAXXI | 1998–2009 Rome, Italy Zaha Hadid Architects
53 Sancaklar Mosque | 2011–13 Istanbul, Turkey Emre Arolat Architecture
54 Micro Yuan’er / Micro Hutong | 2013–16 Beijing, China Zhang Ke (ZAO/standardarchitecture)
55 Harbin Opera House | 2010–15 Harbin, China Ma Yansong (MAD Architects)

About the Authors:

Dr Antony Radford is an urban designer and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His recent books include Understanding Sustainable Architecture and Digital Design: A Critical Introduction. Dr Amit Srivastava is an architectural historian at The University of Adelaide who has lived and worked in India and Australia. Dr Selen Morkoç is a writer and critic who has practised and taught architecture and theory in Turkey and at The University of Adelaide, Australia.

A bestselling classic completely revised and updated

The Essential Garden Design Workbook has been the go-to guide for students, professionals, and any gardener passionate about well-designed outdoor spaces.

Now, eminent designer-educator Rosemary Alexander has teamed up with rising design star Rachel Myers for a complete update. New garden plans, new photos and diagrams, and updated profiles of 50 top plants offer timely insights for today's designers. Advice on designing for sustainability and diversity has been added, along with guidance on planning for garden spaces large and small, using computer-aided design, and starting a garden design business.

Detailed sections that lead you through the entire process — pre-design, concept, layout, planning, planting, and maintenance — are more relevant than ever. Invaluable for experienced pros and the next generation alike, this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful, successful gardens.

About the Author:

Founder and Principal of The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, Rosemary Alexander writes and lectures worldwide on garden design. She has worked on a wide range of gardens throughout the world. For eleven years she was tenant of the National Trust property, Stoneacre, in Kent, where she created a romantic, old-world garden. She now lives in Hampshire where she has made a new garden. Rachel Myers is a garden designer based in Oxfordshire. She has designed gardens in France, Belgium, and Colombia. At the English Gardening School, Rachel lectures on both garden design and practical horticulture diploma courses as well as overseeing and grading all plant portfolios. Her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines, including The Book of Garden Plans, The Book of Small Garden Plans, and Gardens Illustrated.

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English interior design is respected throughout the world, and Sims Hilditch is at the forefront of understanding how decoration and practicality can work hand in hand. Explore the firm’s many projects and see how interiors have evolved to embrace new ways of living.

Emma Sims-Hilditch is best known for creating relaxed, elegant interiors that are ideal for the values and lifestyles of a new generation. The environments she makes offer an insight into the considered house of the future — simple, beautiful, and practical, advancing a new style of living that is transforming not only the lives of homeowners but also communities. Sims-Hilditch gives advice on the best ways to decorate and organize a home. She embraces traditional materials translated for contemporary living: interior stone walls, comforting color palettes, stylish and sturdy fabrics, and antiques mixed with contemporary designs.

Whether the project is an urban town house, a seaside cottage, an ancestral residence, or a lakeside retreat, the approach of Sims Hilditch is always the same — a collaboration with clients to make stylish, comfortable homes that offer the perfect settings for everyday life. The book explores how the firm creates rooms where people live healthy and vibrant lives, aware of the changing seasons and embracing the comforts of a slower lifestyle — resulting in a holistic picture of design in the twenty-first century.

About The Authors:

Emma Sims-Hilditch launched Sims Hilditch in 2009 using the skills she honed through her previous career in film production for Ridley Scott. 
Giles Kime is executive editor of Country Life magazine. 
Simon Brown is a renowned interiors and portrait photographer based in London. 
Kit Kemp MBE is a British interior designer and founder of Firmdale Hotels.

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Lively watercolours and ink drawings of refined facades draw a compelling portrait of Paris, where each building is accompanied by its delightful ornamental details.

This elegant book invites readers to lift up their eyes while strolling throughout Paris’s streets and boulevards to pause, discover, and appreciate the facades of its buildings and the delicate artworks that are their windows, doors, and balconies. Innumerable motifs ornament the architecture of the French capital — each a minor masterpiece of fine design and ironwork artistry.

Exquisite, never-before-published watercolours and ink drawings by French illustrator Dominique Mathez bring each building’s beautiful exterior to life. Away from the over-celebrated monuments and landmarks, the city’s true, subtle charm emerges, distilled in a striking invitation to take a new look and rediscover its architecture through the ages. Complete with an informative text by one of today’s most renowned design experts, Olivier Gabet, this sophisticated volume is the ideal gift for Francophiles and Paris lovers everywhere.

About the Authors:

Dominique Mathez is a French medical doctor and clinical researcher known for her pioneering contributions to the knowledge and treatment of HIV and AIDS. This is the first publication of her work as a passionate illustrator. Joël Orgiazzi is a French ironmaster. He has been awarded the prestigious title Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 1986.

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Arthur Parkinson's town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks. Despite its small size, a flower-filled jungle in Venetian tones is grown here each year, in defiance of urbanisation. The plants act like drapes, closing gently as their growth engulfs the front door, from either side of the path, to the buzz of precious bees.

This is gardening done entirely in pots, yet on a grand scale that will inspire anyone who wants their doorstep or patio to be a glamorous and lively canvas that nurtures them visually and mentally. From jewel scatterings of crocus, flocks of parrot tulips and scented sweet peas to galaxies of single dahlias, towering giraffes of amaryllises grown inside for winter and endless vases of cut blooms through the seasons.

With his bantam hens at his feet, Arthur shares his life, knowledge, flair and influences for planting creatively, all of which combine to create a space that's rich in ever-changing colour and life.

‘The Flower Yard is simply gorgeous. Inspirational, sumptuous and packed with refreshingly down-to-earth advice. I love this book.’ Nigel Slater

‘The Kew-trained king of the small-space garden.’ Guardian

About the Author:

Arthur Parkinson trained at Kew Gardens. After graduating, he pursued an interest in growing cut flowers by working for renowned gardener Sarah Raven. He continued to work for her as a florist, arranging flowers and teaching, and together they recorded the much-praised podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange. Arthur designed a garden for the Emma Bridgewater factory in Staffordshire, which received wide acclaim, as did the accompanying book, The Pottery Gardener. His second book, The Flower Yard, was one of The Times Best Gardening Books of 2021. A guest presenter on BBC Gardeners' World, he has also written about gardening and keeping poultry for several newspapers and magazines and his memoir, Chicken Boy, was published in 2023. He shares his photography on Instagram.

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An A-to-Z compendium of more than 200 garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments for gardeners around the globe

Following the bestselling The Gardener's Garden, garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave explores the creative art of garden-making through more than 200 elements and features. This is the ultimate reference guide, with entries ranging from Allée and Bower to Formal, Native Planting, and Xeriscape — each illustrated with examples drawn from historic and contemporary gardens around the world. Whether tending an English cottage garden or a Japanese Zen landscape, gardeners and garden lovers everywhere will be inspired as never before.

About the Author:

Dr. Toby Musgrave is an authority on garden history. He devised and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The British Garden, and has written for many magazines and newspapers. He teaches garden history at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, and has also lectured at Oxford University and the Royal Horticultural Society. He was consultant editor for The Gardener’s Garden (2014) and is author of Green Escapes (2018), both by Phaidon.

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- The first illustrated 'glossary' for gardeners and garden designers, featuring more than 200 definitions and informative descriptions of modern and historical garden styles, features, types, and ornaments — brought to life with more than 500 gorgeous illustrations
- A definitive reference book on garden design and its history, with an easy-to-use A-to-Z organization with handy cross-references
- Comprehensive in scope — entries span styles and types (cottage, Islamic, minimalist); features (basin, gazebo, waterfall); and design theories (borrowed landscape, geometric, informal, vista)
- Features gardens around the world, public, iconic, lesser-known, and private, and the work of emerging and eminent designers, including Andrea Cochran, Emily Erlam, Dan Pearson, and Bernard Trainor

Window on the world. Travelling the world with an architect's eye

Architect Harry Seidler spent more than 50 years travelling the globe, extensively photographing the peak achievements in architecture from 3000 B.C. to the present day. Thanks to sound advice given to him early on by his photographer brother Marcell (“Only use Leica cameras and Kodachrome film, which is archival”), Seidler’s hobby quickly developed into a passion and, finally, an impressive archive of world architecture.

Including, of course, many of the world’s most famous architectural structures, Seidler’s photographs illustrate the history and style — country by country — of architecture in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Divided into chapters by country, each with a brief introduction outlining its architectural history, The Grand Tour offers armchair travellers, students, architecture buffs, and historians the opportunity to browse the buildings of the world through one man’s photographs —the fruits of a passionate, half-century endeavour.

About the Author:

Born in Vienna, Austria, Harry Seidler studied architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg before winning a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied under Walter Gropius. He also studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and was the chief assistant of Marcel Breuer in New York from 1946 to 1948. He worked with Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro before opening his own practice in Sydney in 1949. He has taught at the Harvard School of Design, the ETH in Zurich, and the University of Sydney. In 1996, Seidler was awarded the RIBA gold medal. He died on March 9, 2006.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

A unique survey of forty architect-engineers who have been pioneers in both aesthetic design and technological innovation

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.

With 26 illustrations, 19 in colour

About the Author:

Kenneth Powell is an architectural historian, critic and consultant. He has written extensively on 20th-century and contemporary British architecture, and is the author of books on the work of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and other major British architects. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has served on the Council of the Architectural Association.