The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

by Edward Hollis

  Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 31–32, 169, 173–76, 179–81, 184–85

  Scholl, Sophie, 31

  Scotland, 25, 100

  Scott, Fred, 9

  Sebrok, Abbot, 115, 117–18

  Segal, Rafi, 290

  Seine, River, 198

  Selim II, Sultan, 73

  Serapis, 49

  Serlo, Abbot, 109, 118–19

  Severn, River, 107, 115

  Seville, 129, 140

  Sèvres, Treaty of, 76

  Sex Pistols, 224, 229

  Sforza, Francesco, 150

  Shakespeare, William, 11

  The Tempest, 7–8

  Shanghai, 7, 263

  Sharon, Ariel, 290

  Sheba, 301

  Sheffield, Park Hill estate, 218, 221

  Sicily, 83

  Sidney, Philip, 97

  Siena, 150

  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 151, 154

  Silesia, 182

  Sinai, 296

  Sinan, 74–75, 294

  Sinatra, Frank, 263

  Singapore, 270

  Six-Day War, 288

  Skelmersdale, 218

  Slany, 83

  Society of Dilettanti, 28

  Socrates, 18

  Solomon, king of Israel, 65, 69, 295, 301

  Sophocles, 18

  Sophronius, Patriarch, 297

  South China Sea, 277

  Soviet Union, 181

  see also Russia

  Spain, 68, 127–29, 143, 318

  reconquista, 126–27, 133

  Spanish Inquisition, 294

  Sparta, 152, 165

  Spree, River, 35

  Sri Lanka (Ceylon), 15, 128

  Stalin, Josef, 184

  Staunton, Abbot, 111–12, 119

  Stewart, Helen, 260, 262

  Stone, Sally, 9

  stories, 11–12

  Stuart, James. See Antiquities of Athens

  Stuttgart, 185

  Suleyman, Sultan, 72, 74–75, 294

  Sulla, consul, 47

  Sully, Maurice de, 201–4

  Sweden, 247, 252

  Syracuse, 7

  Syria, 46, 142

  T

  Taut, Bruno, 216

  Tersatto, 88, 92–93

  Thames River, 35

  Themistocles, 32

  Theodora, empress of Constantinople, 64, 75

  Theodosius I, emperor of Rome, 20, 32, 48, 64

  Thermopylae, Battle of, 20

  Thokey, Abbot John, 107–10

  Thomas of Cantebrugge, 117–18

  Thomas of Canterbury, 116

  Thucydides, 15, 18, 25, 35

  Thutmosis, Pharaoh, 49

  Timbavati, 265

  titanium, 35

  Titus, 298–99, 302

  Tivoli, 141, 175

  Torcello, Rustico da, 50–51

  Town, Ithiel, 5

  Trelleborg, 247

  Tresivio, 83

  Troy, 22, 46, 105

  True Cross, the, 90

  Truman, Harry S., 185

  Tschumi, Bernard, 35, 233

  Tully, Robert, 117

  Turkey, 78, 284

  Tuscan language, 157

  Tuscany, 56

  Tzara, Tristan, 224

  U

  Ukraine, 261

  Umayyad dynasty, 140

  UNESCO, 78, 284–85

  United Nations, 288

  United States of America, 181

  Ur, 300

  Urbino, 150

  V

  Valhalla, 31

  Valtelline, 83

  Valturio, Roberto, 152, 165

  Venice, 12, 24, 40, 43, 49–58, 66, 165, 175, 294

  Arsenale, 55

  Basilica of San Marco, 9, 42–43, 51–52, 55–56, 81

  Bucintoro, 43

  families of the Golden Book, 57

  horses of San Marco, 41–43, 47–48, 55, 57–58, 66

  Las Vegas and, 261–62, 267–69

  Marco Polo and, 258, 270

  Pala d’Oro, 42–43

  Piazza San Marco, 57

  Torcello island, 50

  and tourism, 257, 272–74

  winged lion of St. Mark, 42–43, 55, 57

  Versailles, 178, 183, 197

  Via Flaminia, 161

  Vienna, 29, 35, 69, 182

  Holy House of, 98

  siege of, 129

  Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 9, 15, 189–90, 193–94, 197, 201, 203–6, 209

  Virgin Mary

  and Gloucester Cathedral, 112

  and Hagia Sophia, 63, 66, 78

  and Holy Houses, 82, 85–88, 90–91, 93–99

  and Notre Dame de Paris, 191, 196, 201

  Our Lady of Loreto, 98–100

  Our Lady of Walsingham, 101

  and Parthenon mosque, 23, 125

  Visigoths, 10, 20, 143

  Vitruvius, 6, 15, 159–60

  Vivaldi, Antonio, 268, 272

  Vivico company, 249–50

  Vladimir, Prince of Kiev, 66

  Voltaire, 177–79, 199

  W

  Wales, 117

  Walsingham, 83, 93–97, 100–101

  Waqf, the, 285–86, 288–89, 293

  War on Terrorism, 78

  Warhol, Andy, 224

  Warren, Charles, 292

  Wars of Religion, 97

  Warsaw Treaty, 236

  Washington, D.C., 247

  Weizman, Eyal, 290

  Westminster, St. Stephen’s Chapel, 116

  White Mountain, Battle of the, 98

  Wigmore, Abbot, 110–11, 119

  Wilhelm I, kaiser of Germany, 183

  Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany, 183–85

  Wilhemine, Princess, 178

  William, Abbot, 109

  Wilson, Charles, 291

  Wilson, Hugh, 212, 218–19

  Wilson, Tony, 224–25

  Wittelsbach, Otto Von, 30

  Wittenberg, 129

  Womersley, Lewis, 212, 218–19

  World Congress of Architecture, 290

  World War I, 76

  World War II, 217

  Wren, Christopher, 6

  Wright, Frank Lloyd, 9

  Würzburg, 29, 35

  Wynn, Steve, 263–66, 268, 275

  Wythenshawe, 228

  Y

  Yangtze River, 263

  York, Duke of (Richard Plantagenet), 115

  York, 89

  Ysabel of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, 128–30, 132, 136, 140, 143–44

  Z

  Zem Zem, the well of, 69

  Zeno, 18

  Ztenice, 83

  Zkoor, Abas, 284

  About the Author

  Edward Hollis is an architect and designer who teaches at the Edinburgh College of Art. Trained at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, he worked for five years in the United Kingdom as a practicing architect, specializing in alterations to historic buildings. This is his first book.