Godfrey Goodwin is ex-director of the Royal Asiatic Society in London and the foremost authority on Ottoman architecture. He taught art and architectural history at the University of the Bosphorus from 1957 to 1968 and is author of several authoritative works, including The Janissaries, A History of ottoman Architecture , Islamic Spain and Topkapi Palace.
'...fills a serious gap and fills it eloquently. Like Brunelleschi in Italy a century earlier, Sinan transformed architecture and needs to be discussed in terms of form, space and light, which the book does brilliantly.'Sherban Cantacuzinoo, Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission, London 'At last, architectural history with an architect's eye...An important study, showing Sinan in the context of the European architecture of his time.' J.M.Rogers, Professor of Islamic Art 'Goodwin writes about the very stuff of aarchitecture...Scholarship is certainly there. but what for me is impressive is the way the author confronts us with the extraordinary imagination of this great innovator, artist and architect.'Sir Philip Dowson, Former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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