50 Great Adventures: Extraordinary Places and the People Who Built Them

by Jonathan Lee

Architecture meets biography, and also meets travel guide in this highly personal exploration of some of the world's most provocative, revealing and beautifully built structures. Jonathan Lee... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791334344
• ISBN13: 9783791334349
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

A travel guide, or a survey of architectural inspirations: it fits all categories.

Fifty buildings from around the world are explored through their creators, offering a blend of buildings and biographical sketches which lend to an appreciation of why architecture is created. 50 GREAT ADVENTURES: EXTRAORDINARY PLACES AND THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT THEM packs in over two hundred color illustrations and provides both a history of the creation's place in architecture and a survey of how it has affected its community. A welcome and recommended addition to professional and academic library Architectural Studies collections, this as an architectural guide, a travel guide, or a survey of architectural inspirations: it fits all categories. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch