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

Autor Edward Hollis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2010

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.

In an inspired refashioning of architectural history, Edward Hollis recounts more than a dozen stories of such metamorphosis, highlighting the way in which even the most familiar structures all change over time into "something rich and strange." 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, meanwhile, which was once gleefully smashed and bulldozed, are now treated as precious relics.

With The Secret Lives of Buildings, Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312655365
ISBN-10: 0312655363
Pagini: 370
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Edward Hollis

Cuprins

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Architect's Dream

The Parthenon, Athens
In Which a Virgin Is Ruined

The Basilica of San Marco, Venice
In Which a Prince Steals Four Horses and an Empire

Ayasofya, Istanbul
In Which a Sultan Casts a Spell and Moves the Center of the World

The Santa Casa of Loreto
The Wondrous Flitting of the Holy House

Gloucester Cathedral
In Which a Dead Body Brings a Building to Life

The Alhambra, Granada
In Which Two Cousins Marry Each Other

The Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini
In Which a Scholar Translates a Temple

Sans Souci, Potsdam
In Which Nothing Happens at All

Notre Dame de Paris
In Which the Temple of Reason Is Restored

The Hulme Crescents, Manchester
In Which the Prophecies of the Future Are Fulfilled

The Berlin Wall
In Which History Comes to an End

The Venetian, Las Vegas
In Which History Is So, Like, Over

The Western Wall, Jerusalem
In Which Nothing, and Everything, Has Changed

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index


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This is the story of architecture as never seen before. A brilliantly original book that takes us from the colossal achievements of antiquity to their ersatz rebuilding in Las Vegas, telling stories about buildings and the ways they change