About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features: An introduction to the life and work of the architect. The major works in chronological order. Information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions. A list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings. Approximately 120 illustrations (photographs. sketches, drafts and plans).
Maria Antonietta Crippa is currently professor "straordinario" of
History of Architecture at the Politecnico University in Milan, at
the DiAP (Department of Architecture and Planning of the School of
Architecture). Since the early 1980s, she has published widely on
architecture and town planning.
Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He
has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M.
Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several
titles in the Basic Architecture series.
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