Présentation de l'éditeur :
Architecture shapes people, and people shape architecture. This
illustrated volume delves into the personalities and thoughts of those
who designed the buildings that give form to our times.
Ingrid von
Kruse’s very personal portrait photography is complemented by statements
in which renowned present-day architects throw light upon what
architecture means to them personally.
A selection of sketches, drawings
and models rounds off the examination of their artistic ideas and their
thinking. Within the context of this broad, composite view, the
architects as they see themselves and the ideals that lie behind their
ideas attain clear contours.
Tadao Ando, Gottfried Böhm, Mario Botta, Santiago Calatrava, David
Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid,
Bjarke Ingels, Helmut Jahn, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel
Libeskind, Richard Meier, Rafael Moneo, Oscar Niemeyer, Ieoh Ming Pei,
Dominique Perrault, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Álvaro Siza,
Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown, Peter Zumthor...