Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us. Amongst many other buildings, Norman Foster is responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, one of the world's largest, for the Rossiya tower in Moscow, in contention to be the tallest skyscraper in Europe until the credit crunch killed it, for one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan, and for a crop of new towers in London. He designed the Reichstag, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks headquarters in London and China, the new Wembley stadium and the British Museum's new court. Deyan Sudjic's insightful and elegantly written biography charts the remarkable life of one of the world's most influential architectural figures.

南斯拉夫裔英国设计评论家，伦敦设计博物馆馆长。毕业于爱丁堡大学建筑系，多年来致力于研究人与设计的关系，除了建筑与设计等主题的写作、编务外，他还投入设计教学与策展，曾担任伦敦金斯顿大学艺术设计和建筑系主任，英国皇家艺术学院客座教授等，萨迪奇与设计相关的代表作包括：The Edifice Complex ［Penguin, 2006］、The Language of Things ［Penguin, 2008］、Norman Foster : A Life in Architecture ［Orion, 2010］。