The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (59 page)

Huis van Doorn,
184

Humboldt, Alexander von,
174–76

Hungary,
72
,
152
,
182

Huron tribe,
84
,
99–100

Hwicce tribe,
109

I

ibn Ahbar, Kaab,
297–98

Ibn al Nasr,
139

Ibn Zamrak,
137–38
,
140

Ibrahim, Sultan,
73

Idris-i Bidlisi,
73

Île de France,
194

Iliad
,
11

Impressionism,
271

India,
46
,
68
,
128
,
140

Indonesia,
282

industrial revolution,
189
,
212

Inspiral Carpets,
225

Intercoenales
(Alberti),
157

Iran,
284

Isaac II, emperor of Constantinople,
53–54

Isabella, queen of Castile,
127–28

Isabella, queen of England,
107–8
,
120

Isidore of Miletus,
65
,
75

Islam,
68–70
,
73
,
76–78
,
89
,
125–26
,
140
,
143
,
152
,
284–85
,
293
,
295

Isotta degli Atti,
150
,
152
,
155
,
161
,
163–64

Israel,
270
,
281–82
,
284–91

Istanbul.
See
Constantinople

Istria,
161
,
164

Italic War,
156

Italy,
56
,
66
,
85
,
100
,
134
,
149
,
152
,
154
,
214

architecture,
135

and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia,
175
,
177
,
180
,
183

Ivanovitch, Feodor,
25

J

Jack the Ripper,
292

Jansenism,
200

Japan,
9
,
185
,
282

Jerusalem,
7
,
52–53
,
69–70

Al-Aqsa Mosque,
284
,
287
,
295–97

Anglo-Saxon archaeological digs,
285–86

Church of the Ascension,
90

Dome of the Rock,
286–88
,
290
,
295–96

“Great Sea,”
292

Islamic conquest,
297

Israeli occupation,
288–89

Mugrabi path,
283–85
,
289–90

Muslim Quarter,
285–86
,
289

restoration of the Temple,
287–88

Roman conquest,
298–99
,
302

Temple of Solomon,
45
,
90
,
301–2

Western Wall,
9
,
279–303

Jesuits,
99

John, king of Portugal,
294

John of Sponlee,
116–18

Josephine, empress of the French,
57
,
197

Joy Division,
224–25

Juana the Mad, queen of Castile,
128

Julius Caesar,
142
,
157

Julius II, Pope,
93

Jupiter,
44–45
,
169
,
299

Justinian, emperor of Constantinople,
49
,
55
,
64–65
,
75
,
77
,
164

K

Kaniatarowanenneh River.
See
St. Lawrence River

Karajan, Herbert von,
11

Karel, Keiser.
See
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Kelaniya, River,
35

Kemal Ataturk, Mustapha,
76–78

Kenilworth Castle,
120

Kent, William,
212

Khameini, Ayatollah,
284

Klenze, Leo von,
31–32
,
189–90

Knight, Richard Payne,
28

Knobbelsdorf, Georg von,
177

Koch, Hagen,
235–36
,
238
,
240–41
,
249
,
251

Kollek, Teddy,
289

Koolhaas, Rem,
271

Koran,
72
,
138
,
295

Kosmonosy,
83

Kublai Khan,
258–60
,
276

Kyoto,
247

L

La Ville Radieuse
(Le Corbusier),
9
,
217
,
229

Lachares,
20

Lake Como,
269

Lange, Gustav,
249

Laocoön,
41–42

Lapiths and Centaurs,
26–27

Las Vegas,
5
,
9
,
247
,
255–77

Lassus, Jean-Baptiste,
193
,
197
,
201

Latin,
76
,
118
,
147
,
152
,
157–59
,
303

Latin America,
175

Laureta,
86–87

Le Corbusier,
6
,
9
,
217
,
219
,
229

Lebanon,
301

Lenné, Peter Joseph,
175

Levant,
53
,
125
,
261
,
264

Lewis, Jerry,
263

Libérateur
,
56

Lithuania,
261

Little Red Riding Hood
,
11–12

Livy,
152

Lobkowicz, Baroness Beligna Katherina von,
97–98

Lombardy,
120

London,
6–7
,
24
,
97
,
116
,
233
,
250

British Museum,
28–30
,
35

Nash terraces,
219

Park Lane,
24
,
27

St. Paul’s Cathedral,
6
,
116

Loos, Adolf,
6

Loren, Sophia,
267

Lorenzo the Magnificent,
152

Loreto, Holy House of,
12
,
84
,
92–93
,
97–98

Louis XIV, king of France,
199–200

Louis XVI, king of France,
198

Louis XVIII, king of France,
199–200

Louis Philippe, king of France,
198

Lucian,
157

Ludlow Castle,
115

Luise, queen of Prussia,
174

Lünser, Bernd,
240

Luria, Rabbi Isaac de,
302

Lusiere, Giambattista,
25

Luther, Martin,
129

Luxemburg, Rosa,
253

Luxor,
49
,
269

Lysippus,
46

M

Macao,
259
,
266
,
275–76

Macedon,
58

Machuca, Pedro,
134

Maghreb,
128

Magic Flute, The
(Mozart),
173

Maillard, Mlle.,
199–200

Malamocco, Buono da,
50–51

Malatesta, Polissena,
150

Malatesta, Roberto,
164
,
166

Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo,
149–56
,
160–61
,
163–66

Malatesta, Verruchio,
151
,
154–55

Malta,
75

Malvern, Abbot,
119

Manchester

Free Trade Hall,
224

Hulme Crescents,
207–30
,
234

music scene,
224–27

nineteenth-century,
212–13

Manchester Evening News
,
212

Manchester Guardian
,
215

Mandalay,
269

Manhattan,
7

Mantua,
166

Mao Zedong,
270

Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress,
182

Marseille,
216