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Book Monuments of Ancient Russian Architecture

Download or read book Monuments of Ancient Russian Architecture written by Fedor Fedorovitch Richter and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landmarks of Russian Architecture

Download or read book Landmarks of Russian Architecture written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Straya Ladoga

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. A. Gershkowitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Straya Ladoga written by A. A. Gershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Russian Cities

Download or read book Ancient Russian Cities written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Milovskiĭ and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monuments of Russian Architecture and Monumental Art Style  Relation and Dating

Download or read book Monuments of Russian Architecture and Monumental Art Style Relation and Dating written by V P. BYGOLOV and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monuments of Russian Architecture and Monumental Art

Download or read book Monuments of Russian Architecture and Monumental Art written by Collet's Holdings, Ltd. Staff and published by . This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North

Download or read book Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North written by Evgeny Khodakovsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive national expression of traditional Russian artistic culture and at the same time as a significant part of humanity’s worldwide architectural heritage. The chief intention of the book is to present the regionally specific features of the wooden churches of the Russian North, which vary from area to area for local natural or historical reasons. This approach touches upon the very important questions of the typology and classification of the multiplicity of architectural forms. The "regional view" entails giving clear definitions of the ambiguous terms "architectural school" and "tradition", explaining the origins and shaping impulses for the different regional clusters of objects. Structurally the book presents a history of the development of wooden church architecture in the Russian North and then follows the key points of the mediaeval Russian expansion along the waterways from Novgorod into the North – he Svir’ River, Lake Onego, the town of Kargopol’ and the River Onega, the White Sea, the Rivers Dvina, Pinega and Mezen’ – those areas that still retain the most splendid pieces of Russian regional wooden church architecture. The study is based on field research and provides an up-to-date, multi-faceted view of Russian wooden architecture.

Book The Moscow Kremlin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Voyce
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520345053
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book The Moscow Kremlin written by Arthur Voyce and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Book The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture

Download or read book The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture written by William Craft Brumfield and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a "unifying idea" that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the author's own superb photographs, this is the first comprehensive study by a Western scholar of a neglected period in European architectural and cultural history. Brumfield explores the diverse styles of Russian modernism in part by analyzing the contemporary theoretical debate about them: the relation between technology and style, the obligation of architecture to society, and the role of architecture as an expression of national identity. Steeped in controversy, Russian modernism at the beginning of the century foreshadowed the radical restructuring of architectural form in the Soviet Union during the two decades after the revolution. This authoritative work provides a new understanding of Russian architecture's last brief entrepreneurial episode and offers insight on our own era, when individual freedom and initiative may once again find expression in Russian architecture. The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a "unifying idea" that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the author's own superb photographs, this is the first comprehensive study by a Western scholar of a neglected period in European architectural and cultural history. Brumfield explores the diverse styles of Russian modernism in part by analyzing the contemporary theoretical debate about them: the relation between technology and style, the obligation of architecture to society, and the role of architecture as an expression of national identity. Steeped in controversy, Russian modernism at the beginning of the century foreshadowed the radical restructuring of architectural form in the Soviet Union during the two decades after the revolution. This authoritative work provides a new understanding of Russian architecture's last brief entrepreneurial episode and offers insight on our own era, when individual freedom and initiative may once again find expression in Russian architecture.

Book Architecture at the End of the Earth

Download or read book Architecture at the End of the Earth written by William Craft Brumfield and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and brick churches and homes in the region's ancient villages and towns still stand. Featuring nearly two hundred full color photographs of these beautiful centuries-old structures, Architecture at the End of the Earth is the most recent addition to William Craft Brumfield's ongoing project to photographically document all aspects of Russian architecture. The architectural masterpieces Brumfield photographed are diverse: they range from humble chapels to grand cathedrals, buildings that are either dilapidated or well cared for, and structures repurposed during the Soviet era. Included are onion-domed wooden churches such as the Church of the Dormition, built in 1674 in Varzuga; the massive walled Transfiguration Monastery on Great Solovetsky Island, which dates to the mid-1550s; the Ferapontov-Nativity Monastery's frescoes, painted in 1502 by Dionisy, one of Russia's greatest medieval painters; nineteenth-century log houses, both rustic and ornate; and the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Vologda, which was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the 1560s. The text that introduces the photographs outlines the region's significance to Russian history and culture. Brumfield is challenged by the immense difficulty of accessing the Russian North, and recounts traversing sketchy roads, crossing silt-clogged rivers on barges and ferries, improvising travel arrangements, being delayed by severe snowstorms, and seeing the region from the air aboard the small planes he needs to reach remote areas. The buildings Brumfield photographed, some of which lie in near ruin, are at constant risk due to local indifference and vandalism, a lack of maintenance funds, clumsy restorations, or changes in local and national priorities. Brumfield is concerned with their futures and hopes that the region's beautiful and vulnerable achievements of master Russian carpenters will be preserved. Architecture at the End of the Earth is at once an art book, a travel guide, and a personal document about the discovery of this bleak but beautiful region of Russia that most readers will see here for the first time.

Book The Empress   the Architect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300065647
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Empress the Architect written by Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1779, Charles Cameron, a Scottish architect based in London, set sail for St. Petersburg. He had been summoned by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, to create a magnificent architectural setting for the splendours and extravagances of her court - most especially the two luxurious palace ensembles outside St. Petersburg at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk. His reputation prior to his arrival in Russia was based almost entirely on his authorship of a book on the baths of ancient Rome - he had built nothing as yet - but while serving as Architect to Her Imperial Majesty, Cameron was responsible for some of the most dazzling and original architectural creations of the eighteenth century. This book tells a fascinating story of enterprise, initiative, amazing patronage and very remarkable architectural achievements on a large scale, all of which took place within a unique historical and cultural context. Dimitri Shvidkovsky weaves together the intriguing, and still not completely documented biography of an enigmatic architect - possibly a Jacobite rebel and exile - and the life of the great Russian ruler, Catherine II. This is set against the backdrop of the rapidly developing influence of British culture on Russian society. Architects, park designers and gardeners from England and Scotland were to be found in every part of Russia by the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, helping to establish a particular form of design whose cultural impact was made all the more dramatic by its adoption and development by native Russian architects and designers. This book, ravishingly illustrated with views of the palaces and gardens of imperial Russia - many now destroyed - places Russian architecture and garden design of the neo-classical period within its European context for the first time, and explores the hitherto neglected connections between British and Russian architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It offers a fascinating and original account of Russian culture in this period.

Book Gold in Azure

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Gold in Azure written by and published by Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine. This book was released on 1983 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Books Relating to Architecture  Construction and Decoration

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Relating to Architecture Construction and Decoration written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Landmarks of Russian Architect

Download or read book Landmarks of Russian Architect written by William Craft Brumfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.

Book Pami   a   tniki drevnerusskogo zodchestva v risunkakh A M  Lanteva

Download or read book Pami a tniki drevnerusskogo zodchestva v risunkakh A M Lanteva written by Alekseĭ Laptev and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Books Relating to Architecture  Construction   Decoration in the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Relating to Architecture Construction Decoration in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architectural Conservation and Restoration in Norway and Russia

Download or read book Architectural Conservation and Restoration in Norway and Russia written by Evgeny Khodakovsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norway and Russia have been closely related through the ages, both geographically and historically, and have experienced similar problems relating to climate, building maintenance and national wooden architecture. As a result, the parallel study of architectural conservation and restoration theories and practices in both neighbouring Northern states makes for a stimulating collective monograph. Architectural Conservation and Restoration in Norway and Russia delves into the main challenges of historic and contemporary architectural preservation practices in the two countries. The book consists of three main parts: the discovery and preservation of historical architecture in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century; contemporary approaches to former restorations and the conservation and maintenance of historical architecture; and, finally, current questions concerning preservation of twentieth-century architectural heritage which, due to different building technologies and artistic qualities, demand revised methods and historical evaluation. This is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and students in different areas of architecture (medieval, nineteenth-century, wooden and contemporary architecture) as well as in the fields of art, architectural history, cultural heritage and Scandinavian and Russian studies.