The Secret Lives of Buildings: from the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories - Edward Hollis - Books - Picador - 9780312655365 - October 26, 2010
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Edward Hollis
The Secret Lives of Buildings: from the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories First edition

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Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. The Parthenon, that epitome of a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was ?restored? to a design that none of its original makers would have recognized; remains of the Berlin Wall, once gleefully smashed, have become precious relics. Here Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 26, 2010
ISBN13 9780312655365
Publishers Picador
Pages 384
Dimensions 140 × 210 × 30 mm   ·   543 g
Language English  

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