Tom Wilkinson's book is a fascinating journey into the history of architecture, during which you will get to know ten great buildings, distant from each other in time and space: from Ancient Babylon you will be taken to Florence of the Renaissance, to Beijing at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries , to London in the 1930s, and then to modern-day Rio de Janeiro. People live in an architectural environment, and it, in turn, shapes their views and determines their behavior. This mutual influence is the subject of the author's interest. Tom Wilkinson raises a variety of topics - sex, power, morality, work, health - in the context of their connection with the harmonization of space. You will learn how the buildings around us shape the human worldview - and vice versa.