The Great Builders

A unique survey of forty architect-engineers who have been pioneers in both aesthetic design and technological innovation.

'The story that these 40 anecdotes tell is captivating ... [this] is a rare book that treats architecture as an expression of structural science in the hands of artists' - New York Journal of Books

'[An] excellent study of architecture’s most outstanding exponents ' - Burlington Magazine

Kenneth Powell is an architectural historian, critic and consultant. He has written extensively on 20th-century and contemporary British architecture, and is the author of books on the work of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and other major British architects. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has served on the Council of the Architectural Association.