As the book is of various buildings over ages, it is also a chunk of minor history. In each description, there is the narrative of towers as gods dwellings in mountains, the innovativeness of concentric castles.
The description of the buildings makes you look forward to identify the features in the pictures. The alternating curved and triangular pediments in Palacio Real, Winter Palace could not escape my attention after having read of them in Palazzo Farnese description.
The aerial picture of Vauban's Fort carre made the influence easy to match in Fort Henry.
John Soane. Christopher Wren.
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