Length9h 41m
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Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane. As international cultural statements without words, symbols of a peoples values devotion, patriotism, power symbols of a civilisationÊs grandeur, these monuments still fascinate and attract an ever-growing public who is captivated by the createvity and ingenuity of these architects and stonemasons. Their historical message goes far beyond mere art history, for they tell us of the lives and evolution of the peoples of the past, as does the Parthenon in Athens, many times destroyed, rebuilt, reused, attacked, pillaged, and restored once again today. This work, featuring 1000 monuments chosen from around the globe, retraces human history, the techniques, styles, and philosophies necessary for the construction of so many splendours over the centuries, providing a panorama of the most celebrated monuments while evoking the passion of their makers. The reader can explore the changing values of humanity through the edifices it has built and understand these structures as triumphs of humankind
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GenreOther
Length9 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2014
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26Marcel Breuer
2Introduction
27Filippo Brunelleschi
3What is Architecture?
28Michelangelo Buonarroti
4Structure and Materials
29Le Corbusier
5Architecture as Theory
30Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
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6Africa and the Middle East
31Hassan Fathy
7Asia and Oceania
32Norman Foster
8India and Southeast Asia
33Richard Buckminster Fuller
9China
34Antoni Gaudí
10Japan and Korea
35Frank Gehry
11The 19th and 20th Centuries
36James Gibbs
12Australia and Oceania
37Michael Graves
13Europe (including Russia and Turkey) (pt. 1)
38Eileen Gray
14Europe (including Russia and Turkey) (pt. 2)
39Walter Gropius
15The Americas
40Zaha Hadid
16Biographies
41Victor Horta
17Alvar Aalto
42Thomas Jefferson
18Robert Adam
43Philip Johnson
19Leon Battista Alberti
44Inigo Jones
20Tadao Ando
45Filippo Juvarra
21Luis Barragán
46Louis Kahn
22Peter Behrens
47Rem Koolhaas
23Gian Lorenzo Bernini
48Louis Le Vau
24Mario Botta
49Daniel Libeskind
25Donato Bramante
50Adolf Loos
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