The Secret Lives of Buildings From the Ruins

Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. 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; remains of the Berlin Wall, once gleefully smashed, have become precious relics. Here Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.

Edward Hollis is an architect and designer who teaches at the Edinburgh College of Art. Trained at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, he worked for five years in the United Kingdom as a practicing architect, specializing in alterations to historic buildings. This is his first book.

Introduction	p. 1
The Architect's Dream
The Parthenon, Athens: In Which a Virgin Is Ruined	p. 15
The Basilica of San Marco, Venice: In Which a Prince Steals Four Horses and an Empire	p. 41
Ayasofya, Istanbul: In Which a Sultan Casts a Spell and Moves the Center of the World	p. 65
The Santa Casa or Loreto: The Wondrous Flitting of the Holy House	p. 87
Gloucester Cathedral: In Which a Dead Body Brings a Building to Life	p. 113
The Alhambra, Granada: In Which Two Cousins Marry Each Other	p. 133
The Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini: In Which a Scholar Translates a Temple	p. 157
Sans Souci, Potsdam: In Which Nothing Happens at All	p. 183
Notre Dame de Paris: In Which the Temple of Reason Is Restored	p. 205
The Hulme Crescents, Manchester: In Which the Prophecies of the Future Are Fulfilled	p. 227
The Berlin Wall: In Which History Comes to an End	p. 253
The Venetian, Las Vegas: In Which History Is So, Like, Over	p. 279
The Western Wall, Jerusalem: In Which Nothing, and Everything, Has Changed	p. 305
Notes	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 347
Acknowledgments	p. 357
Index	p. 359
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The Secret Lives of Buildings From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

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