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"Examines various basic shelters from all over the world: mud-brick adobe structures, desert nomads' tents, travellers' quick fixes, timber frame buildings and modern innovations including strawbale houses and geodesic domes"--Jacket.

"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his...

Architecture has always had a powerful and intimate relationship with society and the lives of those who build and live with it. It has often been used to try and improve society. But can architecture change our lives for the better? Tom Wilkinson uses ten buildings from across the globe to tell stories of architecture from the beginning of civilization to the present day.

Spain owes its special historical position in Europe very largely to its intensive encounter with the Orient. Moorish-Andalusian art and architecture combine elements of various traditions into a new, autonomous style. This book describes the Great Mosque in Cordova and the Alhambra in Granada, the architectural witnesses to this achievement.