Building the Future : Architecture That Changed Our World

Cattermole, Paul

ISBN 10: 0500342288 / ISBN 13: 9780500342282

Published by Thames & Hudson, Limited, 2006

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building the Future : Architecture That Changed Our World
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500342288
• ISBN 13: 9780500342282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Architects have always dreamed of shaping the future, of building utopian worlds filled with seemingly impossible structures that break with the past to propel mankind far into the twenty-first century and beyond. Buildings for Tomorrow reviews forty such visionary projects that appear to come from futures that mankind has so far only imagined. Buildings for Tomorrow reviews forty such visionary projects that appear to come from futures that mankind has so far only imagined. Spread across nineteen countries, over thirty architects, from famous names to little-known innovators, have combined the latest technological advances with their boundless creative energy to bring their constructions into being.

About the Author

Paul Cattermole is the former creative director of a specialist architectural picture library and an architectural writer based in London. His most recent work is Buildings for Tomorrow: Architecture That Changed Our World.

Gwyn Headley is the founder of the Folly Fellowship, a society dedicated to extreme buildings of architectural interest, and the author of Architectural Follies in America.