The genius of the architects

At first I was a little skeptical especially as the publisher Wiley made us already hit with "big ideas that revolutionized architecture." It was feared redundancy and repetition but this is not the contrary. The two authors of the book have really focused their work on concepts essential for the architect: the environment, surface, materials, scale, movement, geometry, light ... The explanations of these concepts are based on the history of architecture with monuments of Roman antiquity, the Middle Agen Renaissance but especially of our time. However, the strong point of the book that sets it apart from others, besides a beautiful layout with many illustrations with recent architectural achievements (confluence area of ​​Lyon for example), is that it combines a great name the international architecture to a concept dear to him. These include "the phenomenal transparency" in the spaces of Le Corbusier, projected Zaha Hadid or Mies van der Roheet the grid as the site ... A whole program for lovers of architecture or novices who want to learn . Personal small problem: we would have liked to have more lines dedicated to Frank Gehry and his work on the movement in his work as well as for his work Ricciotti Mucem around the concrete as material.