[PDF.60fz] The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

[PDF.vp88] The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

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 | #688073 in eBooks |  2009-11-10 |  2009-11-10 | File type: PDF

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Know more about buildings (old and new) and enjoy.|By Janet Deshon Healy|What a handy book of useful bits of information on some significant well loved sites in the world. This book is well reasearched without fooy notes or end notes so is not for the hardened historian looking for quotable sources. This book is written by an architect about buildings...old and new....and is a|From Booklist|Hollis provocatively opens with his interpretation of Thomas Cole’s famous 1840 painting, The Architect’s Dream, a fantastical imagining of styles from the classical to the gothic. Viewin

A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents

Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shape-shifters.

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