This text is guide to the building history of London, from its Roman foundation, its Tudor expansion, and the reconstruction after the Great Fire...more details Format:Paperback Pages:444
Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Do we see them as jig-saws and riddles or romantic evocations of the damage of Time, complete with crumbling stone and ivy? Do they stir us to remember past glory or warn against future arrogance? In this elegant...more details Format:Hardback
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Christopher Woodward
ISBN:9781407063690
Why are we so fascinated by ruins? This book looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Christopher Woodward
ISBN:9781400030866
In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288