jonnyhough on May 1, 2017
Jonathan M Lee
Journalist, author and broadcaster
jonnyhough on May 1, 2017
Travel meets biography in Jonathan’s first book – a highly personal exploration of some of the world’s most provocative, revealing and beautifully built structures.
Readers get to explore a global spectrum of extraordinary built spaces, journeying from Lanzarote, home of César Manrique’s Jameos del Agua grotto, a James Bond-style fantasy, to India and Nek Chand’s Rock Garden of Chandigarh, a realisation of a childhood dream; and from Arizona where Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, a vision for a utopian community, shimmers in the desert, to China’s Forbidden City, conceived by the Ming emporer Young Le to assert his authority over a vast empire.
Useful travel advice accompanies each piece, giving readers all the information they need to experience these extraordinary places for themselves.
BBC Radio 4, Excess Baggage, December 3, 2005
Click here to listen to the interview
‘One of those books for people who have already been everywhere. Takes you from underground chapels in Polish salt mines to the Birmingham branch of Selfridge’s, by way of a giddying range of architecture around the globe.’
Observer, December 4, 2005
Author: Jonathan Lee
Published: 2005
Publisher: Prestel
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