Author : Jean-Francois Lejeune
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135250278
Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Author : V. I. Atroshenko
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Louisa Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 9780500516119
Examines landscaping in the Mediterranean region and observes how specific sites are created to compliment the beauty of the natural landscape.
Author : Alessandro Bucci
Publisher : Alinea Editrice
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8860552931
Author : Camilla Mileto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351973940
Vernacular architecture in general and earthen architecture in particular, with their rich variety of forms worldwide, are custodians of the material culture and identity of the peoples who built them. In addition, they are widely recognized as ancestral examples of sustainability in all their variants and interpretations, and the architecture of the present ought to learn from these when designing the sustainable architecture of the future. The conservation of these architectures – seemingly simple yet full of wisdom – is to be undertaken now given their intrinsic value and their status as genuine examples of sustainability to be learnt from and interpreted in contemporary architecture. Vernacular and earthen architecture: Conservation and Sustainability will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and Architecture.
Author : JanK. Birksted
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351558064
Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jos?uis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Mir?labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.
Author : C. Mileto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 131573690X
Sustainability is a concept that has monopolised a large number of the scientific debates in a wide range of spheres connected not only with architecture, urban planning and construction, but also with the product market, tourism, culture, etc. However, sustainability is indissolubly linked to vernacular architecture and the lessons this architectu
Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher :
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788487104510
Author : Cristiana Bartolomei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1385 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030762394
The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future. Including several chapters, it contains research results relating to cultural heritage, more specifically Modernism, and current digital technologies. This makes it possible to record and evaluate the changes that both undergo: the first one, from a material point of view, the second one from the research point of view, which integrates the traditional approach with an innovative one. The purpose of the publication is to show the most recent studies on the modernist lexicon 100 years after its birth, moving through different fields of cultural heritage: from different forms of art to architecture, from design to engineering, from literature to history, representation and restoration. The book appeals to scholars and professionals who are involved in the process of understanding, reading and comprehension the transformation that the places have undergone within the period under examination. It will certainly foster the international exchange of knowledge that characterized Modernism
Author : Sean Roberts
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0674071611
In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on this journey. Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Simultaneously, the use of the Geographia as a diplomatic gift from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells another story. This exchange expands our understanding of Mediterranean politics, European perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman interest in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine state, which chose not to bestow some other highly valued good, such as the city’s renowned textiles, but instead the best example of what Florentine visual, material, and intellectual culture had to offer.
