Introduction
A Celebration of Architects-Engineers
Medieval Cathedral Architects
Filippo Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
Thomas Telford, The Menai Bridge
Decimus Burton, Richard Turner, The Palm House
Joseph Paxton, Charles Fox (Fox Henderson & Co), Crystal
Palace
Antonio Gaudi, Church of the Sagrada Familia
William Le Baron Jenney, John Wellborn Root, Chicago
Skyscrapers
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin, Emile Nougier, Stephen
Sauvestre, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, The Eiffel Tower
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Concert Hall Project
Auguste Perret and reinforced concrete
Eugene Freyssinet, Airship Hangars
Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International
Albert Laprade, Leon Bazin, Jean Prouve, Establissements
Citroën, Garage Marbeuf, Glass façade
Carlos Arniches, Martin Dominguez, Eduardo Torroja y Miret,
Zarzuela Hippodrome
Pier Luigi Nervi, Aircraft Hangars, Orvieto
Frank Lloyd Wright, Mendel Glickman, S.C. Johnson & Son
Administration Building; and Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaroslav J.
Polivka, Laboratory Tower
Robert Maillart, Cement Hall
Eero Saarinen, Fred N. Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Jefferson
Memorial Arch
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic and Tensegrity Domes
Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya, Felix J. Samuely, The Skylon
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank J. Kornacker, Convention Hall
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Joaquim Cardozo
Le Corbusier, Yannis Xenakis, H.C. Duyster, C.G.J. Vreedenburgh,
Philips Pavilion
Jorn Utzon, Ove Arup & Partners, Opera House
Guillermo Rosell, Manuel Larrosa, Felix Candela, Chapel
Konrad Wachsmann, Space Structure
Bertrand Goldberg, Frank J. Kornacker, Bertold E. Weinberg, Fred N.
Severud, Hannskarl Bandel, Marina City
Gerhon & Seltzer, Lev Zetlin, Memorial Auditorium
Kenzo Tange, Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, Mamoru Kawaguchi, Olympic Swimming
Pool Arena and Olympic Boxing and Basketball Arena
Cedric Price, Frank Newby, Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon),
Zoo Aviary
Myron Goldsmith, Alfred Picardi, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
Solar Telescope
Rolf Gutbrod, Frei Otto, Cable Net Roof, German Exhibition
Pavilion
Piano & Rogers, Ove Arup & Partners, Centre National d'Art
et de Culture Georges Pompidou
Joerg Schlaich, Dry Cooling Tower, Schmehausen Nuclear Power
Plant
Jiri Strasky, Stress-Ribbon Bridges
Richard Rogers and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Inmos
Microchip Facility
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Anthony Hunt Associates, Waterloo
International Terminal
Eva Jiricna, Matthew Wells, Tim Macfarlane, Glass Staircases
Foster Associates, Ove Arup & Partners, MC-2 Julio Martinez
Calzon, Torre de Collserola
Santiago Calatrava, Buro Happold, Dennis Sharp, Trinity
Bridge
Future Systems, Ove Arup & Partners, Lord's Media Centre
Lifschutz Davidson, Matthew Wells (Techniker), Pedestrian
Bridge
David Marks, Julia Barfield, Babtie Allott & Lomax, Hollandia,
British Airways London Eye
Wilkinson Eyre, Whitby, Bird & Partners, Challenge of Materials
Footbridge
And there were others
Inspiration for the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Index