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The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History Magazine_____London. City of ancient churches and bustling markets, palatial townhouses and modest terraces, two millennia of expansion, commerce and street life. This is its story.In Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian offers a tour through thirteen districts that made London into London. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon roots of Hampstead H...

Paperback edition of this picture of Georgian London, shaped by the sex industry. Cruickshank drawns on contemporary memoirs, court cases and the evidence of art and architecture in this strongly imagined account, which is also illustrated throughout with contemporary engravings and paintings etc.

Architecture is an all-embracing adventure without end, " declares Dan Cruickshank in the introduction to A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings.Cruickshank's selection represents key moments in architectural history and it is truly global in scope. It includes many of the world's best-known structures, and many less obvious ones, the unsung heroes of this great and fascinating story. Having visited most of the featured buildings himself, ...

Discover the most incredible man-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unparalleled catalog of the most famous and intriguing buildings and monuments created by humans.Man-Made Wonders of the World features a range of structures from buildings to monuments, statues, and bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam. It opens with a foreword by Dan Cruickshank and then takes the reader on a continent-by-continent j...

Among the myriad London districts, Chelsea has always held a special charm for residents and visitors alike. Spacious and gracious, with the River Thames as its dramatic background, it has played host to a unique history of artists, bohemians, and related civil causes. Over the course of twelve chapters, Built in Chelsea: Three Centuries of Living Architecture and Townscape offers readers an opportunity to learn about key episodes of the area'...

London. City of ancient churches and bustling docklands, palatial townhouses and run-down terraces, two millennia of migration, commerce and street life. This is its story.In Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian offers a tour through thirteen districts that made London into London. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon origins of Hampstead Heath, via the magisterial Baroque churches of the Square Mile, to the industrial ...

A deeply imaginative, street-by-street and meticulously researched biography of one of London's most vibrant and seductive districts

Set in the riotous late 19th-century Chicago, this is the story of the first great skyscraper, and the transformation of this modern city.

Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His recent work includes the BBC television programmes Civilisation Under Attack (2015) and At Home with the British (2016), and the books A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings (2015) an...

With over 200 photographs, this title gives a definitive account of the history of architecture through the fascinating stories of 100 iconic buildings. From the Taj Mahal in India to the Forbidden City in China.

Journeying across the world from Syria to Shrewsbury, Sudan to Southern Spain, Dan Cruickshank explores man's most impressive architectural creations. The stories of buildings in this book offer a stupendous global cultural history. With beautiful illustrations.

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Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became London's bohemian quarter and why it was once home to its criminal underworld. The bars, clubs, theatre...

Subtitled, "Heroic Designs That Changed The World". The presenter of BBC2's "Around The World In 80 Treasures" takes a personal and passionate journey into the awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes - bridges.

Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His recent work includes the BBC television programmes Civilisation Under Attack (2015) and At Home with the British (2016), and the books A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings (2015) an...

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Includes chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, India, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. This book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical settings to describe the main patterns of their architectural development.

A portrait of the famous London institution, The Royal Hospital Chelsea.