Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo...

The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the fifteenth century. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles rather than by pitched battles. Kristian Molin covers the military history of the crusades on a wider geographical scale than previous historians, taking in Armenia, Cyprus and Greece as well as the Holy Land. He also shows the role of castles as administrative, judicial and social centres in times of peace as well as in war....

"With great accomplishment this book succeeds in making tangible the simplicity and unfathomable character of Aalto's architecture."

Was eine architektonische Atmosphare wirklich ausmacht, sagt Peter Zumthor, ist diese einmalige Dichte und Stimmung, dieses Gefuhl von Gegenwart, Wohlbefinden, Stimmigkeit, Schonheit, ... in deren Bann ich etwas erlebe und erfahre, was ich in dieser Qualitat sonst nicht erleben wurde.
Seine Leidenschaft gilt der Erschaffung von Gebauden mit solchen Wirkungsqualitaten, doch wie lassen sich diese eigentlich erzielen? In neun kurzen, illustrierten Kapiteln erzahlt Peter Zumthor - gleichsam in Form einer Selbstbeobachtung- was ihn umtreibt, wenn er die Atmosphare seiner Hauser zu...

In the Middle Ages, imaginative re-use was made of architectural components from classical antiquity such as columns, capitals, cornices, and even statues, sarcophagi, reliefs and inscriptions; the motives ranged from simple utilisation of materials through interpretatio christiana to political legitimation. The author demonstrates how this re-use has been assessed by archaeologists, historians and art historians and what insights they have gained.