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Featuring over 200 photographs, 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.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780007575589
BY (AUTHOR) Cruickshank, Dan
PUBLISHER : HarperCollins Publishers	PUBLICATION DATE : October 08, 2015
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : William Collins
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Hardback

DIMENSION : 252 mm x 195 mm
WEIGHT : 1280 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
The Arts

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