The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (63 page)

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

Z
tenice,
83

Zkoor, Abas,
284

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.