Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century English scientist, inventor, and architect Robert Hooke, measuring his impact on science and the world in which he lived and discussing the reasons he was largely forgotten by history for three hundred years.
Old Frank, an architect from New York, criticizes the designs of his grandson Young Frank, an aspiring architect, but changes his attitude after visiting The Museum of Modern Art.
Blends fact and fiction in a historical novel about the love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and architect Frank Wright, who was commissioned by Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1903 to design a new home for them.
Presents a biographical profile of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, examining his long career during which he designed such buildings as New York's Guggenheim Museum, and the Johnson Wax Building, and looking at his tumultuous personal life.
Presents an interview with Frank Gehry that reveals information about the architect's life, childhood, relationships with clients, architectural influences, his designs, and more; and includes photographs and illustrations.
A collection of biocritical studies that provide information about the lives and creative activities of architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture during the twentieth century; arranged alphabetically by last name, and including selected bibliographies.
The story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.
