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Uncommon structures, unconventional builders
- Title
- Uncommon structures, unconventional builders / by Alan Van Dine.
- Author
- Van Dine, Alan
- Publication
- New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2001.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TH148 .V26 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 206 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.
- Summary
- "From Anasazi cliff dwellings to Gothic cathedrals, Neolithic huts to French chateaux, seventeen of the world's most ambitious and legendary building projects are chronicled in this book. What unique vision brought each of these structures into being? And what twists and turns did the architects, designers, artisans, and builders encounter on the way to realizing their dreams?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Sir Christopher Wren: Clever men like Christopher Wren only occur just now and then -- Ireland's Curious Towers: After a thousand years no one could remember how they got there -- E-Temen-Anki: The Tower of Babel -- Designs For The Haunted House: When the architects are ghosts the house is of course a nightmare -- Machu Picchu: Lost city of the Incas -- The Cuckoo Construction Company: How to design a home when the most important thing you'll ever own is an egg -- Petra: Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, a rose-red city, half as old as time -- High Gothic: On Ascension Thursday the church fell down -- The Great Wall Of China: The raising of the wall -- Igloos: How to build a northern hemisphere -- Heorot: Beowulf at home -- The Trouble With Cabins And Cottages: Early American alternatives to the log cabin and the White House -- The First Houses: Neolithic notes on urban planning -- Fouquet's Folly: Certain pitfalls to avoid in building a fifteen-million-dollar house -- Shakespeare's Playhouse: Confusion around the Globe -- Jericho: Why did the walls come tumbling down? -- The Fallen Idol: Monumental sculptures of Rhodes.
- ISBN
- 1579121616
- 9781579121617
- 0760778469
- 9780760778463
- LCCN
- 2001018415
- OCLC
- ocm45757825
- 45757825
- SCSB-5534964
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries