Bold ventures : thirteen tales of architectural tragedy /
A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor, the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure, through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects,...
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Table of Contents:
- Municipal Swimming Pool (2005-2011), City Park, Turnhout : Architect unknown
- Church Of Saint Omer (1607-1676), Verchin : Jean Porc (D. 1611)
- Post Office/telegraph and telephone Building (1947-1953), Ostend : Gaston Eysselinck (1907-1953) 45 Iv. Vienna State Opera (1861-869), Vienna : Eduard Van Der Nüll (1812-1868) and August Sicard Von Sicardsburg (1813-1868)
- San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane (1634-1677), Rome : Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
- National Library Of Malta (1786-1796), Valletta : Stefano Ittar (1724-1790)
- Villa Ebe (1922), Naples : Lamont Young (1851-1929)
- Rossauer Barracks (1864-1869), Vienna : Karl Pilhal (1822-1878)
- Fort George (1747-1769), Ardersier : William Skinner (1700-1780)
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum (1888-1901), Glasgow : John William Simpson (1858-1933) and Edmund John Milner Allen (1859-1912)
- Pine Valley Golf Course (1910-1918), Pine Valley
- George Arthur Crump (1871-1918)
- Crandall's Knickerbocker Theatre (1917-1922), Washington, DC : Reginald Wycliffe Geare (1889-1927)
- Kempf's Kinetic Sculpture Garden (Est. 1978), Colorado Springs : Starr Gideon Kempf (1917-1995).