Barnabas Calder
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Barnabas Calder is head of the History of Architecture Research Cluster at the University of Liverpool; it is the largest architectural history research grouping in the UK. His research focuses on the relationship between energy and human culture throughout history and British architecture since 1945. His book Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (2021) was hailed as "one of the most significant architectural publications of recent years."
His work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, where the work originally appeared.
Primary Contributions (1)
Louvre Pyramid, pyramid that serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was designed by architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1989. One of Pres. François Mitterrand’s grands projets (“great projects”), the Pyramid was part of a much-needed rationalization of France’s greatest…
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Publications (2)
Architecture From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (2022)
The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn't been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels. In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing...
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1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces (October 2007)
This book is a one-stop guide to the world’s greatest architectural achievements. Comprehensive and concise, it contains reviews of the most influential structures ever built worldwide. Covering a diverse array of architectural traditions and construction styles–from the bold and brash to the spiritual and reserved, from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim–the book celebrates the vision and achievement of world architecture. Entries...
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