Architecture, Festival and the City

ISBN-13: 9781138362345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 252 str.

Christian Frost; Raymond Lucas; Jemma Browne

Opis

This book examines how festival can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition.

Spis treści

Introduction Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne  The Festival in History  1. ‘Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97’
- Italy Susan Janet May  2. A Contemporary Reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to Festival and the Elizabethan Notion of ‘Lost Sense of Sight’- UK Constance Lau  3. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design –Italy Nicholas Temple  4. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century- France Iara Alejandra Dundas  The Festival Through History  5. Script and Score: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri- Japan Raymond Lucas  6. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual and the Space of Civic Order- Italy Christian Frost  7. The Festal Topography of Andre Breton’s Paris- France Dagmar Motycka Weston  8. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed - Italy Grace Alexandra Williams  9. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street – Middle East  Jasmine Shahin  Meaning in the Modern Festival  10. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain -UK Paola Zanotto  11. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster ‘71 Festival
- Northern Ireland Sarah Anne Lappin and Una Walker  12. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 -Republic of Ireland Brian Ward and Gary Boyd  13. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai,- Sardinia 
Italy David Chandler  14. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People, the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale
- Japan Simone Shu-Yeng Chung  15. Tahrir Square’s Festive Imagination- Egypt Hazem Ziada  Index