Buildings That Changed the World

Architecture has the power to change not just how we live, but how we think, how we feel, and how we understand our relationship to the past, the natural world, and each other. Some buildings do this more dramatically and more lastingly than others — genuine turning points in the history of how human beings have shaped their physical environment. DK’s Buildings That Changed the World profiles eighty such structures, from the Parthenon and the Pantheon through medieval cathedrals, the first skyscrapers, Fallingwater, the Sydney Opera House, and the most ambitious contemporary projects.

Each building receives detailed analysis of what made it revolutionary — technically, aesthetically, culturally — alongside photographs, architectural drawings, and the story of the architect whose vision it embodied.

Essential reading for architecture enthusiasts — a genuine argument about what buildings can do and what the best of them have done. Published by DK.