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Hollis, Edward.
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Architecture and society.
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Hollis, Edward.
Architecture and history.
Architecture and society.
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The secret lives of buildings : from the
ruins
of the
Parthenon
to the
Vegas
Strip
in
thirteen
stories
/ Edward Hollis.
by
Hollis, Edward.
Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Call #:
720.9 H742s
Subjects
Architecture and history.
Architecture and society.
URL856
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ISBN:
9780805087857
0805087850
Alternate title:
From the
ruins
of the
Parthenon
to the
Vegas
Strip
in
thirteen
stories
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and index.
Summary:
A highly original history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents. Little else made by human hands seems as stable 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 a 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. Altered layer by layer, buildings become eloquent chroniclers of the civilizations they've witnessed. Their
stories
span the gulf of history--From publisher description.
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