Publisher's Synopsis
The complete BBC series in which Dan Cruickshank traverses the globe, celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations, our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme, buildings from all over the world are juxtaposed, revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, the series is a mammoth journey that takes in some monumental structures, whilst gradually revealing the history of world architecture.
