Bridges are among the most inspiring of all human endeavours. Boldly arching across space, they push the boundaries of the possible to connect and define the places in which we live. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, this passionate and erudite book takes the reader on an exhilarating world tour of these technological and aesthetic triumphs, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Bridge of Sighs, from the awe-inspiring Roman Pont du Gard to the ultra-modern Millau Viaduct.

Dan Cruickshank's Bridges: Heroic Designs That Changed the World.

Dan-Cruickshank

Collins

History Of Architecture In 100 Buildings

HarperCollins - GB - William Collins

"Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end," declares Dan Cruickshank in the introduction to A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings. Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope. It includes many of the world's best-known structures, and many less obvious ones, the unsung heroes of this great and fascinating story. Having visited most of the featured buildings himself, his book is both authoritative and intimate. From the evocative remains of ancient civilizations to towering New York skyscrapers, Cruickshank's A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings is organized in seven themes, such as: Pioneers,Buildings of Vision,Follies,Scale: Where Size Matters,Rhetoric and Meaning, andSurvivals and Revivals. Architects, historians, travelers, and inquisitive listeners will enjoy this beautiful, sumptuously audiobook.

Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings

Arts & Photography

Architecture

HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Publishing

Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became London's bohemian quarter and why it was once home to its criminal underworld. The bars, clubs, theatres and their frequenters are described with detail that evokes the heart of the district. The history of Soho is written in its surviving architecture. Cruickshank points out the streets that were the stamping grounds of criminal dynasties and directs our attention towards the homes of renowned prostitutes, revealing Georgian sexual mores and surprising visitors - amongst them eighteenth-century painter Joshua Reynolds, whose peculiar 'caprice' was simply drawing the girls. Soho has been home to characters as diverse as Mrs Goadby's girls to the Maltese mafia, and Cruikshank draws these threads together with kaleidoscopic verve. Even as he mourns some of the changes, he pays testament to the district's resilience. He observes how the common denominator over the centuries is that it has always been a destination for immigrants: from French Huguenots to the East European Jewish community and recent Chinese diaspora - and that this is the foundation of its spirit and success.

Soho

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Outlines the history of Georgian architecture and discusses the designs of British and Irish churches, houses, and commercial and government buildings

A Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain & Ireland

Rizzoli

London: Art of Georgian Building

Peter Wyld

Architectural Press

Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets

History

Europe

Random House Bo

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