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Creation of Space and the Connection between Models and Drawings as Design Tools
, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 168 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:31 b/w, 52 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503606200.
Summary The essays in this volume address the problem of three dimensions in architecture and the ways architects in the 16th century (and before and after) solved this problem during the design process. Two-dimensional drawings were used as the most helpful element in the design process, as well as for the presentation of designs. Those involved, not only patrons but also construction workers, should be able to understand what a two-dimensional design would turn out to result in three dimensions. Both drawings in two dimensions and three-dimensional models are well-known tools to architects, but the way in which they employed them together is not always clear. Sometimes architects limited themselves to the making of models only when they believed that these would suffice to communicate the design to others. In other instances, drawings and models were used jointly. Topics of study in this volume include examples of these practices in the work of the Sangallo, Raphael, Vasari, and others. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Lex Bosman Drawings for Models Lex Bosman Baldassare Peruzzi's Projections Ann Huppert Combining the intrinsic and the extrinsic: Francesco di Giorgio's model drawings Elizabeth Merril ?Not as beautiful as those made by painters??: graphic innovations in carpenters' drawings in the early sixteenth century in the Low Countries Merlijn Hurx ?Accommodate the Stories to the Spaces and Not the Spaces to the Stories?. Plans, Models and Drawings for Giorgio Vasari's Decorations in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence Laura Overpelt The Mellon Codex and the creation of space with drawings and models Lex Bosman ?Come praticarono molti?. The use of Paper Architectural Models in Early Modern Italy Giovanni Santucci
Interpreting Architecture, Selected Writings on Architectural History
, brepols, 2026 Paperback, Pages: 421 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:65 b/w, 102 col. Language :English, NEW. ISBN 9782503610368.
Summary In the broad field of architectural history, many different approaches are possible. The collection of articles in this book covers a variety of themes, with the meanings of architecture as a central theme in most contributions. The articles are grouped into four main themes: Interpreting Architecture, Design and Construction, Spolia and Historiography. The ways in which attention can shift in architectural history are nicely highlighted in this volume. For instance, the ability to interpret architecture in its variety of meanings is not in doubt today, but was a real point of contention in the second half of the 20th century. Apart from as an enclosure of space, architecture in the past could carry diverse meanings, expressed, for instance, through a specific choice of architectural concepts, or through the use of spolia. The different ways in which medieval architecture in particular could be interpreted are the focus of several articles. Thereby, the application of spolia occupies a special place in both meaning-making and interpretation of architecture. The Historiography section analyses various changes in the way medieval architecture was and is studied. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Introduction, by Petra Brouwer and Gabri van Tussenbroek Interpreting Architecture The Sensus Allegoricus of Medieval Buildings, or: Architectural Iconology in Historical Perspective The Past as a Determining Factor in the Architectural Concepts of Li ge Cathedral (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries) Architecture and Quotation. The Historicity of Buildings from the Past S. Giovanni in Laterano and Medieval Architecture. The Significance of Architectural Quotations The Choir Ambulatory. On the History and Reception of a Type of Ground Plan in Medieval and Post-Medieval Times Design and Construction The Dilemma of Pope Julius II. How to Preserve the Old St Peter?s While Building a New St Peter?s Proportion and Building Material or Theory versus Practice in the Determination of the Module Designing the Villa Pliniana at Lago di Como. Pellegrino Tibaldi and Political Iconography under Habsburg Rule Spolia Spolia in the Fourth-Century Basilica Spolia and Coloured Marble in Sepulchral Monuments in Rome, Florence and Bosco Marengo. Designs by Dosio and Vasari Spolia from Rome?s Past as a Contribution to Roman or Romanesque Architecture The Significance of Tradition. About the Spolia in the Choir Area of Magdeburg Cathedral The Veneration of Spolia. The Madonna della Colonna in St Peter?s in Rome Dutch Colonial Architecture Stabroek in Demerara: The Emergence of the City Plan of Georgetown (Guyana) in the Eighteenth Century From Amsterdam to Berbice. Colonial Administration Buildings as a New Design Task for Abraham van der Hart Government Buildings in the Dutch Colonies (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) Historiography Dutch Architectural Historians and International Contacts until around 1960 The History of Architectural History in the Netherlands. Medieval Architecture M. D. Ozinga?s Inaugural Lecture (1948). The Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Problem of Period Styles The Invention of Gothic. Abbot Suger since Erwin Panofsky There is no Such Thing as Gothic. The Concept of ?Renewal? as an Art Historical Problem Bibliography of Lex Bosman
