Architects on Architects

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WHO INSPIRED THE WHO'S WHO OF ARCHITECTURE? With the passion of first discovery, today's most notable architects share their most moving and formative encounters with the art and influence of mentors, models, and heroes. Full of spellbinding meetings with legendary figures and outstanding works, told by those most touched by their greatness, this grand voyage among the pinnacles of architecture gives you intimate access to the most original structures and minds of our time. Often you will sit beside geniuses at the moment storied works came into consciousness. Frequently you will share seminal exchanges between great mentors and gifted students. Always you will be entertained by true tales of the origins and transmutations of brilliance. LAVISH ORIGINAL COLOR PHOTOS, STIRRING TEXT, AMD EYE-CATCHING DESIGN MAKE THIS BOOK A PLEASURE TO READ, OWN, OR GIVE TO SOMEONE SPECIAL THE GREAT ON THE GREAT Diana Agrest on Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Tadao Ando on Le Corbusier Henry N. Cobb on H. H. Richardson Norman Foster on Paul Rudolph Mario Gandelsonas on Mies van der Rohe Michael Graves on Le Corbusier Vittorio Gregotti on Peter Behrens Charles Gwathmey on Louis I. Kahn Hugh Hardy on William van Alen Arata Isozaki on Le Corbusier Carlos Jimenez on Luis Barragan Sumet Jumsai on Le Corbusier Ricardo Legorreta on Jose Villagran William S. W. Lim on Le Corbusier Richard Meier on Frank Lloyd Wright William Pedersen on Rockefeller Center Cesar Pelli on Eero Saarinen James Polshek on Louis I. Kahn Antoine Predock on The Alhambra Raj Rewal on Fatehpur Sikri Richard Rogers on Maison de Verre Der Scutt onPaul Rudolph Robert A. M. Stern on Paul Rudolph Hans Busso von Busse on Paul Rudolph Here's a profound, stirring study of how the world's greatest architects influenced the lives and work of others--told in the disciples' own dramatic and awe-filled words. They disc