Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture. Ann Marie Borys

ISBN-13: 9780367433277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 234 str.

Ann Marie Borys

Opis

Borys presents Scamozzi as a traveler and an observer, the first Western architect to respond to the changing shape of the world in the Age of Discovery. Pointing out his familiarity with the expansion of knowledge in natural history and geography: to make geography and cartography central to the knowledge of the architect.

Recenzje

'Borys's study offers an important new insight into Scamozzi's work and thus provides us with a richer and more nuanced understanding of the often-too-generic idea of the Palladian style - an approach which was widespread in seventeenth-century Italian and northern European architecture. Historical geographers concerned with landscape, place, and architecture will find much to value in Borys's volume.' Journal of Historical Geography

Spis treści

Contents: Preface: chorography, place, and time; ’Citizen of the world’; Geography and chorography: Scamozzi’s theory of place; Mapping the natural world: casa and villa; Mapping the city: palaces and civic buildings; Chorography and cosmography: place and transcendence; ’A scientific habit’; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Ann Marie Borys is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, USA.