The Secret Lives of Buildings
By :"Edward Hollis"
Published on 2009-11-10 by Macmillan
Category :"Architecture"
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 \
Lenght : 352
Language : en
This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings
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