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Architecture:a History In 100 Buildings
[Paperback - 2019]
dan cruickshank
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Publisher: William Collins Uk | ISBN: 9780007581085 | Pages: 416
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This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture. His selection includes many of the world’s best-known buildings that represent key or pioneering moments in architectural history, such as the Pantheon in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Turkey, the Taj Mahal in India and the Forbidden City in China. But the book also covers less obvious and more surprising structures, the generally unsung heroes of an endlessly fascinating story. Buildings like Oriel Chambers in Liverpool and the Narkomfin Apartment Building in Moscow. Dan Cruickshank has visited nearly all the buildings in the book, many in locations that are now inaccessible and under serious threat. A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings is an eloquent and often moving testimony to the power of great architecture to shape, and be shaped by, world history.

About the Author

Dan Cruickshank is a writer and architectural historian who has made numerous history and culture programmes for the BBC including ‘Britain s Best Buildings’, ‘Around the World in Eighty Treasures’; ‘Adventures in Architecture’; ‘Under Fire: Culture and Conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq’; ‘Britain s Palaces’ and ‘The Country House Revealed’. He is the author of ‘Life in the Georgian City’; ‘The Secret History of Georgian London’; and ‘Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World’. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, was an editor on the Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review, was visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, has served on the executive committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architecture Panel of the National Trust, is a founding Trustee of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, of SAVE Britain’s Heritage and of the campaign to rebuild the Euston Arch.

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