作者Maria Antonietta Crippa目前是米兰理工大学建筑史教授，位于建筑学院建筑与规划系。自20世纪80年代初以来，她在建筑和城镇规划方面发表了大量的文章。 编辑Peter G?ssel负责博物馆和展览设计。他出版了《朱利叶斯 舒尔曼》《R.M.辛德勒》《约翰 洛特纳》和《理查德 内特拉》的TASCHEN专著，以及一些基础艺术系列的建筑作品。 The author 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. The editor Peter G?ssel 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 architecture titles in the Basic Art Series.
JeanProuv 的经济优雅 法国出生的让 普鲁维（JeanProuv ，1901-1984）是二十世纪的领先建筑设计师，是一位自称 建筑师 ，负责监督巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心的设计的陪审团成员。作为设计师，他抓住了创新、扩张和成长的中世纪精神，开发出将简单、引人注目的美学与实用、具有成本效益的材料和装配相结合的技术。 从庞大的临时展览馆到手持式开信刀，模块化建筑系统到室内照明，普鲁维的设计都以简单和低调的优雅高效地装配了他们的功能。普鲁维被世界各地的设计师、建筑师和工程师们所感染，留下了丰富而充满灵感的遗产，与这本小册子完美地契合，巧妙地总结了他的生活和作品。 French architect and designer Jean Prouve (1901-1984) was one of the most important constructors of the 20th century. Prouve's design innovations included cleverly-shaped metal parts for building prefabricated structures; he designed buil
Sculptural Structures Eero Saarinen's new dimensions The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across architecture and design. Among Saarinen's greatest accomplishments are Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630 ft. (192 m) high Gateway Arch of St. Louis, Missouri, each of them defining structures of postwar America. Catenary curves were present in many of his structural designs. During his long association with Knoll, Saarinen's other famous furniture pieces included the "Grasshopper" lounge chair and the "Womb" settee. Married to Aline Bernstein Saarinen, a well-known critic of art and architecture, Saarinen also collaborated with Charles Eames, with whom he designed his first prize-winning chair. With rich illustration tracing his life and caree
