Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Sustainable Living Taken from the Barbican Pocket

Taken from the Barbican Pocket Photo Book

carved in Egypt three and a half thousand years ago

Made in the United Kingdom

writer Jonathan Ledgard

describes a seminal experience with a cat that first sparked his fascination with electricity

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Sustainable Living Taken from the Barbican PocketA groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn't been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to