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'Sudjic explans how Foster helped transform his profession. When he started out, it was largely a gentlemanly, small-scale business, a sort of cottage industry with a strong emphasis on the handicraft of models and drawings. Projects outside an architect's country were the exception. Today, Foster's practice employs well over 1,000 people. The book tells this story clearly and it makes a good introduction to Foster' (Rowan Moore THE OBSERVER )
'Deyan Sudjic's discursive biography offers a portrait of a searcher, a man always exploring the limits of architecture, of whom one client pays the ultimate compliment: Foster "asked the right questions".' (Leo Hollis SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'It is an extraordinary story of a truly self-made man who seems a kickback to the great Victorians, the engineers and industrialists who made the Manchester he came from and conquered the world with their machines' (Edwin Heathcote FINANCIAL TIMES )
'Deyan Sudjic has delivered meticulously researched and pyschologically resonant insights into the conflicting forces of aspiration and outsider status that propelled Foster towards his breakthrough building, the amenities block for the Fred Olsen Line in Milwall in 1969....Sudjic is particularly good at delineating Foster's astonishing ability to get clients to revise their expectations so that he could develop truly radical architecture' (Jay Merrick THE INDEPENDENT )
'The success of the book comes from its insights into the young Foster's life' (Alice Wyllie THE SCOTSMAN )
'Deyan Sudjic has traced Foster's career since he mounted the now legendary Fosters Rogers Stirling Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986...This book is a story about power that charts Foster's journey' (Ed Hollis DAILY TELEGRAPH )
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'Deyan Sudjic's discursive biography offers a portrait of a searcher, a man always exploring the limits of architecture, of whom one client pays the ultimate compliment: Foster "asked the right questions".' (Leo Hollis SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'It is an extraordinary story of a truly self-made man who seems a kickback to the great Victorians, the engineers and industrialists who made the Manchester he came from and conquered the world with their machines' (Edwin Heathcote FINANCIAL TIMES )
'Deyan Sudjic has delivered meticulously researched and pyschologically resonant insights into the conflicting forces of aspiration and outsider status that propelled Foster towards his breakthrough building, the amenities block for the Fred Olsen Line in Milwall in 1969....Sudjic is particularly good at delineating Foster's astonishing ability to get clients to revise their expectations so that he could develop truly radical architecture' (Jay Merrick THE INDEPENDENT )
'The success of the book comes from its insights into the young Foster's life' (Alice Wyllie THE SCOTSMAN )
'Deyan Sudjic has traced Foster's career since he mounted the now legendary Fosters Rogers Stirling Exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986...This book is a story about power that charts Foster's journey' (Ed Hollis DAILY TELEGRAPH )
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A biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you have ever wondered why so much of London looks like it does - the Gherkin,The Wembley Hoop, City Hall, the Tate Bridge - this book is worth your time. It also gives a good account of how and why the practice of architecture has changed so much in the last twenty years. Foster himself is presented as a driven and ambitious man whose personal story would rival that of any Victorian entrepreneur. Much is offered about the major architectural figures of the twentieth century, and even if you know little about them, the book provides enough detail to take the story forward. What it lacks is decent illustrations of their work and that of Foster: the images in the book are small and not very informative in relation to the arguments offered. An 'authorised biography' probably implies that there is little personal gossip about Foster - good - but it also means that any serious critical analysis from an unsympathetic point of view is also absent. We learn a lot about what Foster did and a bit about why he did it but nothing about how we might be able to compare and judge his work in relation to his peers.
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I was expecting something much more interesting and compelling but it is a very weak book and failed to keep my interest. I gave up after 10 pages. And i can read Shakespeare, the Bible......
Shame as I love architecture.
Seems rushed and superficial in content and purpose.
Maybe i missed something...
Shame as I love architecture.
Seems rushed and superficial in content and purpose.
Maybe i missed something...
Format:Hardcover
great book, and a great build up to how foster got to where he is image are also good and a lot of info about froster and the world of architecture
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