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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
The Secret Lives of Buildings From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
Author: Edward Hollis
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 pur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805087857
ISBN-10: 0805087850
Publication Date: 11/10/2009
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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