Bricks & Mortals. Ten Great Buildings And The People They Made

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 340 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014 We dont just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings - economic, erotic, political and psychological - are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture moulds us just as much as we mould it, understanding architecture helps us to understand our lives and our world. Through ten great buildings across the world Tom Wilkinson reveals the powerful and intimate relationship between society and architecture and asks: can architecture change our lives for the better THE TEN BUILDINGS: The Tower of Babel, Babylon (c. 650 BC), The Golden House, Rome (AD 64-68), Djinguereber Mosque, Timbuktu (1327), Palazzo Rucellai, Florence (1450), The Garden of Perfect Brightness, Beijing (1709-1860), Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Germany (1876), Highland Park Car Factory, Detroit (1909-1910), E.1027, Cap Martin (1926-29), Finsbury Health Centre, London (1938), Footbridge, Rio de Janeiro, London (2010)

ISBN: 9781408843666