Description
From the Publisher Compact Overviews of the World's Greatest Architects- TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series Basic Architecture features: x95 Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans x95 Introductory essays explore the architectx92s life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects x95 The body presents the most important works in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes, construction problems (why some projects were never executed), and resolutions x95 The appendix includes a list of complete works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architectx92s most famous buildings Maria Antonietta Crippa is currently professor "straordinario" of History of Architecture at the Politecnico University in Milan, at the DiAP (Department of Architecture and Planning of the School of Architecture). Since the early 1980s, she has published widely on architecture and town planning.
Features & Highlights
- The Dante of architecture
- "Do you want to know where I found my model? An upright tree; it bears its branches and these, in turn, their twigs, and these, in turn, the leaves. And every individual part has been growing harmoniously, magnificently, ever since God the artist created it."
- - Antoni Gaudí Wherever they go, anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was there, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works. Raised during the Industrial Revolution, Gaudí strove to distinguish and reaffirm the identity of his native Catalonia as Spain and the rest of Europe modernized. Early neo-Gothic designs were the stepping-stone to the mature, original style that came to be synonymous with his name. Incorporating bold colors and odd bits of material into his designs, Gaudí created inspiring, visionary buildings and helped establish Barcelona (most notably with the still-unfinished Sagrada Família cathedral) as a city of the world.
- About the Series:
- Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series features:
- an introduction to the life and work of the architect
- an introduction to the life and work of the architect
- the major works in chronological order
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)
