Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - General

Andrea Palladio kann zweifelsohne als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten weltweit gelten. Er war der erste "Berufsarchitekt" und wurde durch die romische und griechische Architektur, vornehmlich Vitruv, stark gepragt. Seine Abhandlung "Quatro libri dell'architectura" brachte ihm weltweit Anerkennung. Seine Villengehoren inzwischen dem UNESCO Weltkulturerbe an. Die ausgestellten Villen bilden einen reprasentativen Querschinitt des umfangreichen Schaffen Palladios.Die landschaftsformationen Venetiens, in denen diese Villen stehen, lassen sich in drei Typen aufgliedern: Ebenen, von Bergen...

What is more important in architectural works--their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?

For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respond to these and similar questions by relying on psychological theories asserting there is no innocent eye, that we think only in language, and that human visuality results from preexisting, conceptual...

In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme section in this volume of "Aspasia": women's auto-biographical writing and correspondence. Articles in this section examine women's autobiographical writing in the second half of the nineteenth century and women's written memories of epochal moments in the Soviet past: the Holodomor (or Great Famine) that convulsed Ukraine in the aftermath of...

In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind large front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 homes were built in the fields surrounding the city. Distinguished by their elaborate entrances and wide granite staircases, Dublin produced its own unique version of the Victorian house form. Today, they are some of the capital s most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws.

This book is the first in...