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25%OFFBarnabas Calder - Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency - 9780141978208 - V9780141978208
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Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency

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Description for Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Paperback. BIC Classification: AM. .

A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn't been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141978208
SKU
V9780141978208
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99

About Barnabas Calder
Barnabas Calder is a historian of architecture and Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, specializing in the relationship between architecture and energy throughout human history. He also works on British architecture since 1945, and is the author of Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism. Twitter and Instagram: @BarnabasCalder #ArchitectureAndEnergy

Reviews for Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
Provocative, enlightening... Calder is the perfect guide around some of mankind's most substantial achievements, but never swerves away from asking hard questions
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[An] engaging study... It has something of the appeal of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel - that of grounding historical mysteries in material facts... Partly a hymn or elegy ... Read more

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