Architecture of the Soul: Buildings That Shaped Memory

Name: Architecture of the Soul: Buildings That Shaped Memory
Author: Imad Darouich

معمار الروح: رحلة في المباني التي صنعت الذاكرة

A reading of American landmarks as buildings that carry memory: the White House, the Capitol, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, the Statue of Liberty, Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, One World Trade Center and the Lincoln Memorial. For each, an architect's reflection is paired with the building's history.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Buildings & Cities

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The Life and Mind Building: Where Ideas Learned to Build Themselves
In Oxford, Imad saw a building that seemed less like a building than a brain growing out of the earth.
The Museum the Earth Dreamed
In Budapest the park opened like a mother's hand and a museum rose out of it, with grass walking overhead.

Architecture of the Soul: Buildings That Shaped Memory

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