Sudjic Deyan: The Edifice Complex
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to…