Edward Hollis

Secret Lives of Buildings

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780312655365
• ISBN-10: 0312655363
• Artikelnr.: 29928829

Autorenporträt

Edward Hollis

Inhaltsangabe

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