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M
Y 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.

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