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Book I ponti delle capitali d Europa

Download or read book I ponti delle capitali d Europa written by Donatella Calabi and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering the Eternal City

Download or read book Engineering the Eternal City written by Pamela O. Long and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.

Book The Market and the City

Download or read book The Market and the City written by Donatella Calabi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context. Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others. This book analyses the intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to better control the economic activities within the city.

Book The Ruin of the Eternal City

Download or read book The Ruin of the Eternal City written by David Karmon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

Book Illuminating Leonardo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Constance Moffatt
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-01-12
  • ISBN : 9004304134
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Illuminating Leonardo written by Constance Moffatt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating Leonardo offers new contributions from major scholars of Leonardo da Vinci covering all aspects of his genius, including his manuscripts and their aftermath, and the various fields of art and science.

Book Building Knowledge  Constructing Histories

Download or read book Building Knowledge Constructing Histories written by Ine Wouters and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history.

Book A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities

Download or read book A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities written by Jaime-Chaim Shulman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities, Jaime-Chaim Shulman offers an analysis of three engineering projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s – 1610s. Mainly external conditions, and not technology, affected the improvement achieved in the inhabitants’ wellbeing.

Book Building Knowledge  Constructing Histories  Volume 1

Download or read book Building Knowledge Constructing Histories Volume 1 written by Ine Wouters and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history. This is volume 1 of the book set.

Book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians written by Society of Architectural Historians and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special issues.

Book Castel Sant Angelo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Baini
  • Publisher : Mondadori Electa
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Castel Sant Angelo written by Laura Baini and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book News on the Rialto

Download or read book News on the Rialto written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fragmenta

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Fragmenta written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practice and Science in Early Modern Italian Building

Download or read book Practice and Science in Early Modern Italian Building written by Hermann Schlimme and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ENCICLOPEDIA ECONOMICA ACCOMODATA ALL  INTELLIGENZA

Download or read book ENCICLOPEDIA ECONOMICA ACCOMODATA ALL INTELLIGENZA written by FRANCESCO. PREDARI and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bollettino della Societ   geografica italiana

Download or read book Bollettino della Societ geografica italiana written by Società geografica italiana and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venezia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Bing
  • Publisher : EDT srl
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 8866390208
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Venezia written by Alison Bing and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magistri d Europa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefano Della Torre
  • Publisher : Nodolibri
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Magistri d Europa written by Stefano Della Torre and published by Nodolibri. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: