Architects on Architects

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 betweengreat 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

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 discuss the career-inspiring achievements of their mentors, designers of some of the most famous structures on Earth. The contributors delve into their mentors' design philosophy, and tell you how the genius of the masters affected their careers, their goals, and their lives.

This candid personal testimony imparts the emotion, inspiration, and wonderment of architecture and vividly demonstrates the power of mentorship and the potential it can unleash. Each original essay is beautifully illustrated with photographs (most in full color) of both the architect's work and that of his or her mentors, providing a visually stunning forum for comparison and learning.

In these pages you will hear from Richard Meier on his fruitful association with Frank Lloyd Wright. You will share Diana Agrest's appreciation for the cinematic and structural genius of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein. You will read Tadao Ando's account of his enthrallment with Le Corbusier—and the Chappelle Notre Dame du Haut.

Open this book and meet masters of architecture—Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, William van Alen, H. H. Richardson, Eero Saarinen—and their admirers—Cesar Pelli, Michael Graves, Hugh Hardy, Charles Gwathmey, William Pedersen, and 19 more of the great names of today's architecture.

In addition, Architects on Architects lets you appreciate great work and great architects from contrasting perspectives. No fewer than four of today's leading architects—Norman Foster, Der Scutt, Robert A. M. Stern, and Hans Busso von Busse—share awe (and differing reactions) before the mastery of Paul Rudolph. You will also view the highly influential work of modernist Le Corbusier from more than one window.

An ideal book for architecture aficionados, ARCHITECTS ON ARCHITECTS captures the soul, inspiration, and majesty of architecture. On architects and by architects, it is a work that builders, developers, and architects themselves will feel compelled to own.

COntents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Diana Agrest on Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
Chapter 2: Tadao Ando on Le Corbusier
Chapter 3: Henry N. Cobb on H.H. Richardson
Chapter 4: Norman Foster on Paul Rudolph
Chapter 5: Mario Gandelsonas on Mies van der Rohe
Chapter 6: Michael Graves on Le Corbusier
Chapter 7: Vittorio Gregotti on Peter Behrens
Chapter 8: Charles Gwathmey on Louis I. Kahn
Chapter 9: Hugh Hardy on William Van Alen
Chapter 10: Arata Isozaki on Le Corbusier
Chapter 11: Carlos Jimenez on Luis Barragan
Chapter 12: Sumet Jumsai on Le Corbusier
Chapter 13: Ricardo Legorreta on Jose Villagran
Chapter 14: William S.W. Lim on Le Corbusier
Chapter 15: Richard Meier on Frank Lloyd Wright
Chapter 16: William Pedersen on Rockefeller Center
Chapter 17: Cesar Pelli on Eero Saarinen
Chapter 18: James Polshek on Louis I. Kahn
Chapter 19: Antoine Predock on the Alhambra
Chapter 20: Raj Rewal on the Unknown Architect of Fatehpur Sikri
Chapter 21: Richard Rogers on the Maison de Verre
Chapter 22: Der Scutt on Paul Rudolph
Chapter 23:Robert A.M. Stern in Paul Rudolph
Hans Bussi von Busse on Paul Rudolph