内容简介
Featuringmorethan100ofthemostsignificantandinfluentialbuildingsofthetwentiethcentury,thisbookincludesbothclassicworksbysuchseminalarchitectsasLeCorbusier,FrankLloydWright,MiesvanderRoheandAlvarAalto,aswellasthosebymorerecentmasters,suchasNormanFoster,FrankGehryandRemKoolhaas.Foreachofthebuildingsincludedtherearenumerous,accuratescaleplansshowingeachfloor,togetherwithelevations,sectionsandsiteplanswhereappropriate.Allofthesehavebeenspeciallycommissionedforthebookandarebasedonthemostup-to-dateinformationandsources.Thereisalsoaconcisetextexplainingthesignificantarchitecturalfeaturesofthebuildingandtheinfluencesitshowsorgenerated,togetherwithfull-colourimages.Cross-referencestootherbuildingsinthebookhighlightthevariousconnectionsbetweenthesekeystructures.Thissecondeditionfeatures8newbuildings,and16additionalpages.Italsohassomeadditionstotheinformationandimagesonmanyofthebuildingsfromthefirstedition.Ithasanewintroductionandanewjacket.
作者简介
RichardWeston,anarchitect,landscapedesigner,andauthor,isprofessorofarchitectureatCardiffUniversity.HisbooksincludethemonographAlvarAalto(winnerofthe1995SirBanisterFletcherPrize)andthedefinitivemonographontheDanisharchitectJ?rnUtzon;TheHouseintheTwentiethCentury;Materials,FormandArchitecture;andKeyBuildingsofthe20thCentury.