Stephen Bayley

The story of architecture in 100 buildings

Witold Rybczynski’s majestic survey takes us from Brittany in 4,800 BC to Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry

The Great Mosque at Kairouan. [Marek Szarejko/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0]

  • The Story of Architecture

    Witold Rybczynski

    Yale, pp. 348, £25

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