As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959，美国最重要的建筑家，被誉为世界现代建筑四位大师之一。其代表作有流水别墅、纽约古根海姆美术馆、东京帝国饭店等。他崇尚自然的建筑观念，其“有机建筑”和“广亩城市”的理念及草原式住宅的风格， 对现代建筑界有极大的影响。他擅用机械为建筑艺术服务，同时力求在建筑中体现材料自然的天性，以使整个建筑与自然环境合而为一，成为“活的有机体”。同时，他坎坷坚韧而多情不羁的一生亦为世人津津乐道，成为众多著名文学作品的原型甚至文化偶像，如安·兰德之《源泉》，南希·霍兰之《爱上赖特》等。

Explores the guiding principles and major aspects of Wright's work, drawing from his formal and informal teachings and complemented by 250 photographs, drawings and architectural plans.

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the grea...(展开全部)

Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes—...(展开全部)

Le Corbusier (1887 -- 1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of Modernism. He was also a social visionary and a writer of polemics, whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. This highly acclaimed book provides a comprehensive and objective survey that puts Le Corbusi...(展开全部)

重新印刷，这是勒·柯布西耶（二十世纪最具影响力的建筑师之一）的生活和工作的精彩视觉传记 “勒·柯布西耶对现代世界形态的影响可以说比任何其他建筑师都更大……你不可能写一本关于任何一位建筑师的书。除了建筑本身，它还揭示了他本人的很多信息。”——《卫报》 畅销经典专著《勒·柯布西耶：大》出版近二十年后，终于重见天日。本书记录了这位二十世纪建筑设计巨匠的生平和作品，呈现了一系列草图、照片和书信，展现了勒·柯布西耶丰富多样的作品。这位艺术家至今仍令建筑界内外的人们着迷。本书收录了一篇由著名建筑史学家、勒·柯布西耶专家让-路易·科恩撰写的导言，本书正是以此为题材，并由另一位勒·柯布西耶的领军学者蒂姆·本顿撰写了章节引言。 Back in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of...(展开全部)