1001 buildings you must see before you die
By: general editor, Mark Irving ; preface by Peter St. John
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844037384
Subjects: Buildings; Guidebooks
Other titles: One thousand and one buildings you must see before you die; Thousand and one buildings you must see before you die
Description: "A visual testament to the beauty, grace, and fortitude of the world's greatest architectural achievements. Beginning in the ancient and Near East, the book explores middle age Byzantine and Gothic examples such as Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, goes on to St Paul's Cathedral, London and continues through the Chrysler Building, New York City, with its art deco metal pinnacle, to splendid contemporary innovations such as Norman Foster's Reichstag parliament building, Berlin and Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. The book is not only concerned with size - it also includes some of the world's most remarkable domestic buildings, such as the Mongolian yurt and houses of the American pioneers, as well as railway buildings, chapels, casinos, concert halls, gentlemen's clubs, and museums, cherished often for the way they represent and capture a particular moment in history in their details and atmosphere."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Previous edition: 2007.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Buildings index; title: Ancient World to the Renaissance; title: Empire to Revolution; title: Birth of the Modern; title: Modernism goes global; title: Rise of Postmodernism; title: Fast into the future.