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Item Details
| Title:
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NORMAN FOSTER
A LIFE IN ARCHITECTURE |
| By: |
Deyan Sudjic |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
075382857X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780753828571 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
A biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation. |
| Synopsis: |
A biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation. Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us. Amongst many other buildings, Norman Foster is responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, one of the world's largest, for the Rossiya tower in Moscow, in contention to be the tallest skyscraper in Europe until the credit crunch killed it, for one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan, and for a crop of new towers in London.He designed the Reichstag, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks headquarters in London and China, the new Wembley stadium and the British Museum's new court. Deyan Sudjic's insightful and elegantly written biography charts the remarkable life of one of the world's most influential architectural figures. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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