Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created incredible beauty through architecture.

In the Czech Republic the macabre tale of a chapel decorated with human bones is revealed.

Dan travels the world to visit structures inspired by the heavens and notions of paradise.

Dan Cruickshank explores buildings shaped and threatened by disaster and adversity.

Dan Cruickshank finds out why some communal buildings succeed where others fail.

Dan Cruickshank examines buildings as gigantic statements of power and repression.

Historian Dan Cruickshank examines buildings as the physical embodiments of dreams.

Dan visits buildings created for pleasure, including the luxurious Taj hotel in India.