Description
The Pritzker Prize is essentially the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and captures in pictures and their very own words their awe-inspiring achievements. Organized in reverse chronological order by laureate each and every chapter features four to 6 of the architect’s major works, including museums, libraries, hotels, places of worship, and more. The text, culled from notebooks, interviews, articles, and speeches illuminates the architects’ influences and inspirations, personal philosophy, and aspirations for his own work and the way forward for architecture. The book includes More than 1000 stunning photographs, blueprints, sketches, and CAD drawings.
Architect offers an unprecedented view into the minds of one of the so much creative thinkers, dreamers, and builders of the last three decades and reveals that buildings are political, emotional, and non secular.