Download or read book Italian Architecture written by Andrew Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's "licentious" New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's innovative S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is coming to seem unduly simplistic. In this carefully researched and original study, Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation. By 1630, architecture had taken on a new dynamism that would soon conquer Italy, Europe, and the New World: the baroque. 209 b/w illustrations.
Download or read book The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays written by Colin Rowe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1982-09-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.
Download or read book A History of Architecture in Italy written by Charles Amos Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History Of Architecture In Italy vols 2 Set written by Charles Amos Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750 written by Rudolf Wittkower and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Italy written by Terry Kirk and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.
Download or read book The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance written by Peter Murray and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides the reader from the earliest revivals of Roman style to the villas of Palladio and Vignola. Each of the great architects is clearly and sensitively discussed. 202 illustrations.
Download or read book Writing Architecture in Modern Italy written by Daria Ricchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers and translators. Linking architectural history and historiography within a broader history of ideas, this book proposes four different methods of writing history, defining historiographical genres, modes, and tones of writing that can be applied to history writing to analyze political and social moments in time. It identifies four writing genres: myths, chronicles, history, and fiction, which became accepted as forms of multiple postmodern historical stories after 1957. An important contribution to the architectural debate, Writing Architecture in Modern Italy will appeal to those interested in the history of architecture, history of ideas, and architectural education.
Download or read book A History of Architecture written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Architecture in Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Dawn of the Renaissance written by Charles Amos Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Italian Architecture 1944 1985 written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991-04-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Italian postwar architecture, and shows examples of apartment buildings, homes, office buildings, and government buildings
Download or read book A History of Architecture Gothic in Italy France and Northern Europe written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Architecture in Italy Vol 1 of 2 written by Charles A. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Architecture in Italy, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Time of Constantine to the Dawn of the Renaissance I cannot hope that the present work will be found to meet with any completeness the requirements which its perhaps too ambitious title may suggest. A complete history of architecture in Italy would be the work of a lifetime, and could only be written during a prolonged residence in that country, and as the result of a' personal examina tion of all the important works and of the documents contained in the archives of many cities. I can only claim to have used, in writ ing this book, my best efforts towards substantial thoroughness and accuracy, and to have gone over the greater part of the ground after its completion, manuscript in hand, verifying, correcting, modifying, and amplifying, as far as my opportunities allowed. I make no claim to have written a philosophical history. In the confusion of traditions in which the annals of Christian Italy are involved, beginning with Imperial Rome, continuing with Gothic kings and Greek exarchs at Ravenna, Lombard kings at Pavia and Milan, Norman counts in South Italy and Sicily, German emperors beyond the Alps with their constant interference, Saracens on the neighboring coasts with their scarcely less constant invasions and harryings, and at the centre all the while the one portentous shape which never changed, the Papacy, it is no wonder that the story of architecture, like the story of the political and social life of the peo ple, presents no steady and logical development, but a bewildering mixture of styles and streams of influence, in the midst of which the thread which connects the form of architecture with the conditions out of which it grew is often lost to the student, who requires, to hold and follow it, a more adequate equipment of historical know ledge and training than I can pretend to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Architecture in Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Dawn of the Renaissance Volume 1 written by Charles Amos Cummings and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
