Book Description
A sumptuous selection of some sixty beautifully designed houses from around the Mediterranean.
Author : Massimo Listri
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
A sumptuous selection of some sixty beautifully designed houses from around the Mediterranean.
Author : Jean-Francois Lejeune
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 28,83 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 : Eleonora Mantese
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8866555797
Author : Kiko Mora
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2024-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN :
This volume focuses on the musicscapes that contest, critique, and rethink Mediterraneidad (Mediterraneaness) in Contemporary Spain, and understands it as a fluid and elusive sociological, cultural, and artistic category. The volume argues that since the 1990s we have witnessed a shift in which the mythical image of “Mediterranean harmony” has been superseded by the net: a figure that represents the linking of urban nodes and trans governmental networks, migratory movements, and cultural fluidity. Further, this book assesses how Mediterraneidad became, within the realm of music, the site and sign of a diverse array of social issues such as the formulation of Catalan, Valencian, Andalusian, and Mallorcan national identities, with the 2017 Catalan Independence process taking center stage. Using diverse methodologies-data-driven sociological approaches; ethnographic and anthropological tools; feminist and gender theories-the authors also address the rapidly changing social landscape that started in the 1980s due to global migrations as well as the dismantling of traditional gender dynamics.
Author : Diana Veglo
Publisher : A. Asppan S.L.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architects
ISBN : 8489439664
Author : Xavier Güell
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Luxurious vacation homes in gorgeous Costa Brava enrich the pages of this new edition. Patterned on previous issues in this successful series devoted to Mediterranean houses, this is the second volume to highlight homes on the Costa Brava, a particularly affluent coastal region of Spain. Houses were selected for the book by the respected Spanish architect and author Xavier Guell. Some twenty outstanding residences are highlighted, most constructed within the past five years. Architects and laypersons building or buying a coastal vacation home will find new insight and perspective on the architecture of gracious holiday homes in these pages.
Author : Carmen Alfaro Giner
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 8437086833
Purpureae vestes estudia un element fonamental en la vida de qualsevol societat antiga com és el vestit i els colors utilitzats per a la seua ornamentació, especialment la púrpura. El luxe en el vestir implicava l'ús de materials com l'or per a la confecció de certs complements. Amb uns antecedents clarament orientals de recerca de la magnificència externa de reis i d'altres dignataris, el simbolisme del color en l'ornamentació personal va constituir, a les ciutats riberenques de la Mediterrània, un factor important de distinció social. Bé fossen de procedència vegetal, mineral o animal, els tints van donar sempre l'«ànima» als tèxtils. Per això, el poder imperial romà, en alguns períodes de la seua història, va controlar amb normes legals de major o menor duresa l'ús de determinats colors obtinguts a partir de gasteròpodes marins. L'obra tracta extensament els aspectes econòmics i tècnics relacionats amb l'elaboració i comercialització de vestits i teles per a altres usos (veles, adorns de la llar, etc.). A partir de diversos punts de vista, entre els que s'inclouen les dades arqueològiques o les referències etnograficocomparatives, s'hi incideix en les etapes de preparació de les fibres tèxtils, en les formes d'elaboració dels teixits més complexos a través de la reconstrucció experimental, en el treball dels pescadors i manufacturers que elaboraven en tallers costaners el tint més valorat, la púrpura, o en els qui treballaven en els tallers de la ciutat, així com en l'anàlisi i descripció detallada dels resultats extrets de les restes tèxtils aparegudes en jaciments, de l'Egipte romà sobretot, que ens mostren encara avui la riquesa i vivor dels seus colors.
Author : Annalisa Marzano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1316730611
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Gangemi Editore spa
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8849290136
This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.
Author : Manuela Grecchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3030898369
This book reviews the building renovation process by systematizing the phases of analysis and prior knowledge through a project that not only considers energy savings but also thoroughly examines complex issues, such as defining the correct new functions and answers to new needs. The urgency of climate change and the many problems associated with the excessive use of energy are forcing a reorganization of the renovation process with an interest in reusing existing buildings with a more sustainable approach. The adaptive transformation of old buildings has become a dominant theme in many urban renewal projects. It must necessarily include strategies for energy efficiency, reduced pollutant emissions, improved environmental performance, economic sustainability and cultural identity. The examples selected are intended to provide evidence of good practices in the review and transformation of old buildings.