Thames & Hudson Ltd
November 1999
Norman Foster, recipient of the 1990 Pritzker Prize, is one of the most
prolific contemporary architects. His remarkable buildings and civic projects
have transformed cityscapes, renewed vital transportation hubs, and rejuvenated
town centers. Ambitious, controversial, and impossible to classify, Foster
succeeds in marrying a steadfastly modern sensibility with a masterly treatment
of the architecture of the past. Foster's recent commissions include some of the
most technologically and aesthetically challenging projects of the modern age :
from the reconstruction of the Reichstag in Berlin to the new Hong Kong
International Airport.
This stunning addition to Universe's architecture series showcases, with
crisp color photographs and a vast range of sketches and plans, Foster's rare
and far-reaching genius, which combined peerless technological prowess with a
global-minded design philosophy. Produced in conjunction with Foster's office,
this volume is among the first to include Foster's newest work : including the
Valencia Congress Center and the Great Court at the British Museum.
With a chronological survey of the architect's career to date and an
insightful introduction, Norman Foster : A Global Architecture is an essential
addition to any architecture library and a lasting tribute to a figure who
continues to redraw the boundaries of architecture and urban planning around the
world.
240 p., 21 x 17 cm
EAN 9780500281239
