Hans Pieler: Architectures of Time

Lavishly illustrated and featuring illuminating essays, the first-ever book on Hans Pieler’s photographs of calendar buildings.

For thousands of years, people have built so-called calendar buildings: buildings that served as sundials for measuring time or were used for astronomical calculations. The most famous examples include the Pyramids of Giza, the Megalithic Temples of Malta, the Solarium Augusti on Rome’s Campus Martius, and the ancient observatories in Korea, Baghdad, Cairo, and Sa...