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THE BERLIN WALL
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Acknowledgments
MY THANKS ARE due, first, to those whose insights inspired me to write this book: Tom Muir, Peter
and Brigid Hardwick, Anthony John, Geoffrey Bawa, Channa Daswatte, Peter Besley, Richard Murphy, Matthew Turner, Jason Orringe, and many more.
I also owe a debt of thanks to my traveling companions, who tolerated treks to obscure shrines long after cocktail hour: Rachel Holmes (née Findlay) and Jonathan Hart.
Third, I must thank the people who agreed to read, as experts or amateurs, some of the stories this book comprises, and provided invaluable feedback: Professor Ian Boyd White, Brendan de Caires, Inge Foeppel, Miles Glendinning, Emine Gorgule, Peter Hardwick, Nicholas King, SJ, Edward Leigh, Caroline and David Mitchell, David Neuhaus, SJ, Heather Tyrrell, and the interior design students of Edinburgh College of Art.
Thanks, in addition, to Edinburgh College of Art for its support in the form of research leave, without which the book would never have been completed. Instrumental in this regard were the good offices of Willie Brown, Alex Milton, Alan Murray, and Susie McCorquodale.
Finally, I am grateful to those who helped edit, design, and produce this book, in particular Grigory Tovbis, without whose editorial rigor and tenacity it would have been a far cruder work than it is, and Patrick Walsh, without whose silver tongue The Secret Lives of Buildings would still be gathering digital dust.
Index
A
Abd Al-Malik (caliph), 295
Abdullah, king of Jordan, 284
Abdullah (a Jew of Bombay), 293
Abu Abdallah Muhammad, “Boabdil”, 127, 131, 137–38, 140, 143
Achilles, 46, 152
Acireale, 83
Adam, Robert, 212, 220, 223
Adelson, Sheldon G., 259–61, 263–66, 270, 274–77
Adriatic Sea, 88
Aeschylus, 18, 25
Africa, 128, 137
Al Andalus. See Andalucia
Al Jazeera, 281
Alaric, 143
Alberti, Leone Battista, 6, 155–66, 169
Al-Buraq, 281, 296–98, 303
Alcibiades, 25
Alexander the Great, 20, 45–47, 142
Alexander, Christopher, 10–11
Alexandria, 49–52, 142, 252
Alexius III, emperor of Constantinople, 53–54
Alfonso, king of Naples, 150
Algeciras, 139
al-Haziri, Yehuda, 292
Almohad dynasty, 140
Amalia, Princess, 30–31
Amiens Cathedral, 194
Anatolia, 76
Ancienne Lorette, 83–84, 100
Ancona, 85
Andalucia (Al Andalus), 127–29, 132–33, 140, 142
Ankara, 76
Anthemius of Tralles, 65, 75
Antiquities of Athens (Stuart and Revett), 25, 31, 35
Apollo, 7, 42, 44, 46–48, 57, 171
Apollo Belvedere, 41–42
Aquileia, 50
Arabian Nights, The, 140
Arabic, 76, 132, 137, 262, 303
Arafat, Yasser, 289
Aragon, 127–29
Arcadius, emperor of Constantinople, 74
Architect’s Dream, The (Cole), 6–9, 125, 169–70, 189–90, 233, 257–58
Aristides, 18, 32
Aristotle, 18, 25, 46, 142, 152
Asia Minor, 46
Ataturk. See Kemal Ataturk, Mustapha
Athene, 17–22, 24, 27, 31–32, 49, 53, 61, 81, 189, 199
Athens, 15–21, 24–27, 29–30, 32, 34, 49, 81, 216–17, 286–87
Antiquities of Athens, 25, 31, 35
earthquake, 33
expansion and pollution, 34
see also Parthenon
Athens Charter, 216–17, 224
Attlee, Clement, 181
Augustus, emperor of Rome, 47–49, 57, 142, 152, 161
Auschwitz, 234
Austen, Jane, 11
Austria, 58, 128
Averroes, 142
Ayodhya, 282
B
Baalbek, 74
Babylon, 50, 301
Bacchus, 74, 171
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 10, 177
Baden Baden, 25
Baghdad, 140
Balanos, Nikolaos, 33
Ban of Croatia, 88–89, 91–92
Bankhead, Tallullah, 263
Bar Ilan University, 286
Barcelona, 7
Barford, Lord Simon, 120
Barry, Charles, 212
Basinius (Basinio Basini), 152
Bath, 212, 219
Battle of the Nations, 173
Bauhaus, 224
Bavaria, 30–32
Bay of Naples, 174–75
Bedouin, 70
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 11
Beijing, 259
Belisarius, 64
Bellavite, Innocente, 179
Bellerophon, 49
Bellini, Giovanni, 42
Benedict XVI, Pope, 78
Berkeley Castle, 107, 114, 120
Berlin, 7, 31, 183–85, 290
Bernauerstrasse, 238–40, 242–43, 245–46, 248–49, 251–52
Brandenburg Gate, 238, 246
Checkpoint Charlie, 246, 252
East Side Gallery, 252
Mauerpark, 249–50
Mauerspechte, 247, 249
Reichstag, 238
Unter Den Linden, 31
Welt-Uhr clock, 239
West Berlin, 236–37
Berlin Wall, 12, 231–53, 257, 290
construction, 241–42
graffiti, 246–47
memorabilia and monuments, 245–48, 251–53, 257
Berliner-Mauer, Eija Riitta, 252
Bernau, 245
Bethlehem, 85, 90, 296
Beyazit, Sultan, 71
Bloomsbury, 212
Blue Man Group, 271
Blunt, Abbot, 109
Boabdil. See Abu Abdallah Muhammad
Bocelli, Andrea, 269
Bohemia, 98–99
Bologna, 135, 156
Boniface, Pope, 87, 92
Bonn, 236–37
Boston, Massachussetts, 272
Boulers, Abbot, 115
Boyfield, Abbot, 113–14
Brabant, 120
Bramante, Donato, 93
Brandi, Cesare, 9
Brandt, Willy, 237
Braque, Georges, 225
Braunche, Abbot, 119
Brazil, 128
Brecht, Bertolt, 10
Breslau, 182
Bridges, Edward, 181
Bristol, 117
Brooker, Graeme, 9
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 158–59, 161
Bucephalus, 46
Burgundy, 128
Burns, Mary, 212–13
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 34, 209
Childe Harold, 28–29
Byzantine Society of the United States, 77
C
Cabaret Voltaire, 224, 284
Cairo, 140
Calvino, Italo, 259
Cambridge, Gloucestershire, 117
Camp David peace conference, 289
Canada, 99
Canaletto, 263–64, 268, 273
Candia, 153
Candide (Voltaire), 179–80
Canova, Antonio, 27, 31
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