The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (57 page)

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

Carbonel, Abbot,
109

Carrara,
164

Casanova,
264

Castile,
129
,
143

Cathay,
128
,
178

Catherine, queen of England,
96

Catt, Henri de,
182

Cécile of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess,
181

Cecima,
120–21

Çelebi, Cafer,
73

Çelebi, Evliya,
22

eská Lipí,
83

Ceylon.
See
Sri Lanka

Charlemagne,
129
,
143
,
197

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (Keiser Karel),
126
,
128–40
,
143–44
,
169
,
197
,
294

Charlottenburg,
31

Chartres Cathedral,
7
,
194

Chaumonot, Marie-Joseph,
84–86
,
92–93
,
96–100

Cher,
268

China,
258–61
,
263
,
266

Choniates, Nicetas,
54

Christ Pantocrator,
63
,
66
,
77

Christianity,
125–26
,
147
,
200

Church of England,
97

Churchill, Winston,
181
,
184–85

Cicero,
134
,
152
,
157

Cimon,
32

Cinderella,
11

Cipango,
128
,
178

Cirque du Soleil,
265
,
271–72
,
275

Clinton, Bill,
289

Cole, Nat King,
263

Cole, Thomas,
5
,
209

The Architect’s Dream
,
6–9
,
125
,
169–70
,
189–90
,
233
,
257–58

Cologne,
120

Colorado Springs,
282

Columbus, Christopher,
127–28

Comédie Française,
199
,
201

Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels),
213
,
227

Condition of the Working Class in England, The
(Engels),
212

Congrès Internationale d’Architecture Moderne,
216–17

Constantine I (the Great), emperor of Rome,
44
,
48
,
51
,
76–77
,
89

Constantine XI, emperor of Constantinople,
63–64
,
66
,
69
,
152

Constantinople (Istanbul),
7
,
20–21
,
25
,
27–28
,
40
,
43–49
,
52–55
,
57–58
,
61–78
,
89
,
142

Ayasofya Mosque,
61–78
,
126
,
257

basilica of Theodosius,
77

bronze horses,
44
,
49
,
55
,
66

change of name,
17
,
73

church of St. Polyeuktos,
54–55

Column of Constantine,
69

earthquakes,
64–65

Eyoub Mosque,
75

Fatih Mosque,
74

Hagia Sophia,
21
,
61
,
63–68
,
70–77
,
81
,
126
,
164

Heroön,
51–52
,
54–55

Hippodrome,
44
,
48–49
,
51
,
54
,
64
,
66
,
74

Hodegetria,
67

iconoclasm,
49
,
66

Imperial Palace,
75

Mihrimah Mosque,
75

Milion,
44

Omphalos,
63
,
66
,
70
,
77

riots of 532,
64–65
,
77

Rüstem Pasha Mosque,
75

sack of,
54–56
,
66
,
128

Sacred Palace,
141

siege of,
67–70

Suleymaniye Mosque,
74–75

Contarini, Domenico,
51

Copenhagen,
29

Cordoba,
129
,
142

Madinat al Zahara,
140

Cotai Peninsula,
259
,
261
,
263
,
266
,
270
,
277

Council of Trent,
129

Crécy, Battle of,
112

Croatia,
88–89

Crusades,
78

Czech Republic,
83

D

Damascus,
140
,
142

Dandolo, Enrico,
52–54
,
66

Danube, River,
15
,
31
,
35

Dark Ages,
3
,
39
,
61–62
,
81
,
171

David, king of Israel,
297
,
300

David, Jacques-Louis,
197
,
200

De Lacey, Abbot,
109

De Militaria
(Basinius),
153

De Re Aedificatoria
(Alberti),
159–61

Debord, Guy,
191
,
274

Delphi,
46–48

Demetrius Poliorcetes,
19–20
,
32

Demosthenes,
18