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Book Hanseatic Architecture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Axel Stelter
  • Publisher : GRIN Verlag
  • Release : 2009-01-19
  • ISBN : 3640244974
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Hanseatic Architecture written by Axel Stelter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Engineering - Civil Engineering, grade: A, University of California, Berkeley, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1894 the British architect John Tavenor wrote an article about the remains of medieval architecture in the Baltic area. He concluded that the style in this area has been carried throughout the Middle Ages and further stated that the style is "quite dissimilar to those of the rest of the continent", meaning the Gothic style, that started to spread over Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. He calls this architecture the "Baltic style" and considers it to be a sub-style of the Gothic style. The Holy Roman Empire, which contributed to the spread of the Gothic style, only reached as far as the Elbe River in Germany. The Baltic area, as the heart of Northern Europe, was fractured into many kingdoms, principalities and lordships in the 1st millennium B.C. So how was it possible that cultural and economic goods could spread in these disadvantageous circumstances, at a time when "commerce by sea was little more than outrageous piracy and commerce by land was obliged to follow one or two beaten tracks across Europe in order to escape merciless exactions of the robber barons" One answer could be the Hanseatic League, a protected network created by merchants, in order to protect their trade. This alliance allowed trading guilds to manifest a trade monopoly within the entire Baltic area. Since the League was not tied to any sphere of control but the merchants themselves, trades could be made easily within Northern Europe. Consequently the simultaneous appearance of the League and the Baltic style suggest that there is a possible correlation between the architecture in the Baltic area and its spread along the Hanseatic League's trading routes. During this essay I am going to support this assumption by finding exemplifying similarities among buildings in the Hanse towns along the m

Book The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hanse, an organization of towns and traders in medieval and early modern Europe, was a unique phenomenon. At the same time, it was embedded in the northern European urban and mercantile culture. The contributions in this volume therefore seek to highlight the atypical features of the Hanse, and place them in a wider context of common roots, influences and parallel developments. New research is presented on the origin and growth of the Hanse, the organization of trade, legal history, interaction with non-Hansards and transitions in the Hanse in the early modern period. Moreover, the historiography of the Hanse, problems of source criticism and possibilities for future research are discussed. The volume is an inspiring guide to Hanse studies. Contributors are Carsten Jahnke, Edda Frankot, Sofia Gustafsson, James M. Murray, Mike Burkhardt, Marie-Louise Pelus-Kaplan, Stuart Jenks, and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Book American Architect

Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Architect and Building News

Download or read book The American Architect and Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hansa Towns

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  • Author : Helen Zimmern
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Hansa Towns written by Helen Zimmern and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hansa Towns

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  • Author : Helen Zimmern
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2011-10-12
  • ISBN : 1447490045
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Hansa Towns written by Helen Zimmern and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1891. Author: Helen Zimmern Language: English Keywords: History / Hamburg Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition

Download or read book Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition written by Malcolm Quantrill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and comprehensive study of the entire span of Finnish architecture in the 20th century. Using comparative critical analysis, the author weaves Aalto's contribution into his overview of the evolution of modern Finnish architecture and includes the work of a range of lesser published figures. It will be of considerable interest to architects, art historians and all those interested in modern Finnish architecture.

Book The German Hansa

Download or read book The German Hansa written by Philippe Dollinger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Architect

Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Private Property and Environmental Responsibility

Download or read book Private Property and Environmental Responsibility written by Murray J. Raff and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable new book is not a radical text, but seeks to find a principle of responsible proprietorship in our existing legal systems. And in fact it presents an excellent case for the international recognition of a principle of responsible proprietorship in the title registration systems derived from the German model, rooted in the historical Hanseatic model; primarily the Australian Torrens system that spread throughout the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century on. In great detail, the author demonstrates that this system offers a firm foundation on which a truly responsible environmental law of property can be established.

Book American Architect and the Architectural Review

Download or read book American Architect and the Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

Download or read book Britannica Concise Encyclopedia written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 2146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. Students, teachers, and librarians can find fast facts combined with the quality and accuracy that have made Britannica the brand to trust. A tool for both the classroom and the library, no other desk reference can compare.

Book The Architect and Contract Reporter

Download or read book The Architect and Contract Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union

Download or read book Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union written by Tuuli Lähdesmäki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social, spatial, temporal, discursive, narrative, performative, and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities, identities, and borders, and for generating notions of inclusion and exclusion in Europe, the book also considers the idea of Europe itself as a narrative. Chapters tackle issues such as multilevel governance of heritage; geopolitics of border-crossings and border-making; participation and non-participation; and embodiment and affective experience of heritage. Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union advances heritage studies with an interdisciplinary approach that utilises and combines theories and conceptualizations from critical geopolitics, political studies, EU and European studies, cultural policy research, and cultural studies. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of heritage, politics, belonging, the EU, ideas, and narratives of Europe.

Book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Baltic

Download or read book Beyond the Baltic written by Alexander Maccallum Scott and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolving Architecture

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  • Author : Chad Randl
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2008-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781568986814
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Revolving Architecture written by Chad Randl and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offeredever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treatpatients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a wardens constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.