Architecture And Geometry In The Age Of The Baroque
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Architecture And Geometry In The Age Of The Baroque
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Author : George L. Hersey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-03
Architecture And Geometry In The Age Of The Baroque written by George L. Hersey and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Architecture categories.
The age of the baroque -- a time of great strides in science and mathematics -- also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. In this book, George L. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments, explaining how the advancements of geometry and the abstractions of mathematicians were made concrete in the architecture of the day. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Jesuits And Fortifications
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Author : Denis De Lucca
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-02-17
Jesuits And Fortifications written by Denis De Lucca and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-17 with History categories.
This book sheds light on the role of Jesuit mathematicians in the widespread dissemination of ideas about military architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by means of teaching, writings and consultancy activities aimed at assisting Catholic leaders in their wars against protestants and infidels.
Architecture In The Age Of Divided Representation
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Author : Dalibor Vesely
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004
Architecture In The Age Of Divided Representation written by Dalibor Vesely and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Reclaiming the humanistic role of architecture in the age of technology: an examination of architecture's indispensable role as a cultural force throughout history.
The Topkapi Scroll
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Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1996-03-01
The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Art categories.
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Humanism
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Author : Rudolf Wittkower
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1971
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Humanism written by Rudolf Wittkower and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Architecture categories.
Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.
Lexikon Of The Hispanic Baroque
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Author : Evonne Levy
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-01-06
Lexikon Of The Hispanic Baroque written by Evonne Levy and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-06 with Art categories.
Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another. Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from material objects to metaphysical notions. Illuminating difference as much as complementarity, departure as much as continuity, the book captures a dynamic universe of meanings in the various midst of its own re-creations. The Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque joins leading work in a number of intersecting fields and will fire new research—it is the indispensible starting point for all serious scholars of the early modern Spanish world.
Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture
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Author : Robert Venturi
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Release Date : 1977
Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture written by Robert Venturi and has been published by The Museum of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Architecture categories.
Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Architecture For The Dead Cairo S Medieval Necropolis
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Author : Galila El Kadi
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2007
Architecture For The Dead Cairo S Medieval Necropolis written by Galila El Kadi and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
The great medieval necropolis of Cairo, comprising two main areas that together stretch twelve kilometers from north to south, constitutes a major feature of the city's urban landscape. With monumental and smaller-scale mausolea dating from all eras since early medieval times, and boasting some of the finest examples of Mamluk architecture not just in the city but in the region, the necropolis is an unparalleled--and until now largely undocumented--architectural treasure trove. In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest--but elaborately decorated--wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead.
Borromini S San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
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Author : Leo Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Release Date : 1977
Borromini S San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane written by Leo Steinberg and has been published by Garland Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Architecture categories.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Baroque
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Author : John D. Lyons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Oxford Handbook Of The Baroque written by John D. Lyons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
Baroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.