Dan Cruickshank Książki

An unrivalled exploration of the world's most surprising and inspiring brick architecture - in a stylish, compact new format

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Britain is home to an extraordinary array of impressive and historic buildings. They are outstanding architecturally and hold fascinating secrets within their walls. Durham Cathedral has long been celebrated for the bold simplicity of its architecture and great beauty. But look closer, and its pioneering engineering becomes more apparent and the symbolism of its decoration more mysterious. Much speculation has been focused on the columns in the south transept -- especially on the odd one at the end. In the riddle of its stones, the cathedral gives us important clues to help understand the aspirations, beliefs, and struggles of the society that built it. The Story of Britain's Best Buildings explores eight such edifices that characterize a nation. From the heroic to the idiosyncratic, this sweeping survey also looks at: Windsor Castle Holyroodhouse Blenheim Palace Tower Bridge Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras Highpoint One Cardiff Castle. In this handsome book, illustrated with more than 120 color photographs, the author celebrates the architecture of great buildings and tells their stories which, together, form a gripping portrait of over a thousand years of British history.

Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings

Dan Cruickshank, whose Around the World in 80 Treasures sold more than 70,000 copies, presents a compelling, maverick history of architecture. Richly photographed, it navigates the globe to take us to the buildings Dan believes have changed the world. As he reveals each choice, he also shows exactly how a great edifice’s function, material, and purpose connect to all other areas of life. What he sees is the work of man at his most inventive, defying or accommodating the forces of nature in a variety of civilizationsexamples of beauty, power, paradise, and the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg; the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan; the Hanging Temple in Shanxi, China; the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil; Pompeii’s Lupanare Brothels; and the building of an igloo in Greenland.

A deeply imaginative, street-by-street and meticulously researched biography of one of London's most vibrant and seductive districts

Výpravná obrazová publikace kontinent po kontinentu představuje divy světa vytvořené člověkem – od Stonehenge přes Velkou pyramidu v Gíze či Velkou čínskou zeď po další nejznámější a nejzajímavější stavby, sochy či mosty historie a současnosti (Golden Gate Bridge, slavné mrakodrapy atd.). Ilustrace ukazují jedinečné půdorysy a výřezy a vše je zasazeno do historického a uměleckého kontextu (historie, architektura, konstrukce, jedinečné příběhy staveb).