Visionary Architecture: Unbuilt Works of the Imagination by Ernest E. Burden Hardcover - 240 pages (December 15, 1999) McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0070089949 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk

Book Description
Historical approach allows the development of architectural vision and technique as well as the concept of the future to be tracked over time. Sketches, paintings, models, drawings, and computer images in a range of media and stylistic techniques provide a very broad picture of architectural imagination and imagery. Timeline integrates architectural events alongside their historical and cultural counterparts. Full-page illustrations reveal technique and architectural detail and yield a very handsome reference book. International content in a beautiful package.

About the Author
Ernest Burden (New York, NY) is an architect, an author, and principal of Burden Associates, a media and marketing consulting firm.

Customer Reviews
beter than a coffe table book, February 29, 2000
Reviewer: BA (in the middle of it all)
Unbuilt works of Imagination is just that. this book has gotten picked up a looked at more then the typical t.v guide( not to compare too). With each look at this book you notice something diiferent everytime which keeps you coming back for more. The cover in itself will hold your attention for quite a period of time. As one who may flip pages- the color contrast will entice you to see what each page does hold. As for those who dream or are forever thinking (as I myself do) you will find your self in the greatest of unknown worlds wondering if and when this will be the new sights in our future. thank you Ernest

Judge a Book by its Cover!, January 29, 2000
Reviewer: Hans-Christian Lischewski (USA - Needham, MA)
While built architecture always reflects the compromises designers have to make with physics and economics, unbuilt visionary architectural projects do not have those limitations. They show the pure imagination and non-compromised execution of conceptual design imaginations. The sophisticated appearance of the jacket reflects very much the content of the whole publication. It is a firework of bold and innovative design concepts. The selection of projects demonstrates clearly that architectural design can be interpreted as the ultimate three-dimensional art form. The works presented in the book were created over the past 250 years by some of the world's best known (and unknown) architects. I highly recommend this book with its fresh array of unconstrained architectural design as a stimulant to all who will or already practice architecture. For those who are just interested in the subject, it will be a dazzling, provocative alternative on the coffee table to issues of Architectural Digest and Martha Stuart Living!

Prof. Hans-Christian Lischewski