The Great Structures in Architecture

The Great Structures in Architecture :

From Antiquity to Baroque

2006 | 272 pages | PDF | 36,5 MB

Starting in antiquity and finishing in the Baroque, this book provides a complete analysis of significant works of architecture from a structural viewpoint. A distinguished architect and academic, the author’s highly illustrated exploration will allow readers to better understand the monuments, get closer to them and to explore whether they should be conserved or modified. 

Contents: Stones Resting on Empty Space; The Invention of the Dome; The Hanging Dome; The Ribbed Dome; A Planified Revenge - Under the Shadow of Brunelleschi; The Century of the Great Architects; The Omnipresent Sinan; Even Further; The perfect symbioses form-function in the high Baroque architecture; Scenographical architecture of the 18th century; The virtual architecture of the Renaissance and the Baroque.

 

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The Dome : A Study in the History of Ideas

The Dome : A Study in the History of Ideas

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The Great Structures in Architecture - From Antiquity to Baroque

The Great Structures in Architecture :

 From Antiquity to Baroque

2006 | 272 pages | PDF | 36,5 MB

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The Dome : A Study in the History of Ideas

The Dome : 

A Study in the History of Ideas

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The Dome : A Study in the History of Ideas

The Dome : A Study in the History of Ideas

E. Baldwin Smith, Shubhi Publications

The admission that this book falls short of what it was intended to be is merely a statement of fact and not an apology. There was a time when the author optimistically believed that he could present the major aspects of domical ideology and evolution in one study. That, however, was before the rapidly expanding complexities of the subject and the difficulties of organizing the material in a written from where the ideas would not be reburied under a mass of accumulated evidence has become inescapable factors. Once it has become evident that the dome was  not just a utilitarian form of vaulting, which has originated for structural and environmental reasons in some one country, but was primarily a house concept which has acquired in numerous cultures its shape and imaginative values upon an ancestral shelter long before it was translated for ideological reasons into more permanent and monumental form by means of wood carpentry and masonry, the whole problem of the dome opened up into a comprehensible but infinitely complex chapter in the history of ideas.

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Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture

Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture

Princeton Architectural Press | English | 2005-10-06 | ISBN: 1568985495 | 192 pages | PDF | 34 MB 

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Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture

Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture

Princeton Architectural Press | English | 2005-10-06 | ISBN: 1568985495 | 192 pages | PDF | 34 MB

There's an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we've ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second to the early twentieth century, Stephenson's work amounts to a veritable typology of the cupola. His images present complex geometrical structures, rich stucco decorations, and elaborate paintings as they have never been seen before. Brilliantly calibrated exposures reveal details and colors that would otherwise remain hidden in these dimly lit spaces. Visions of Heaven shows more than 120 images, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a nineteenth-century synagogue in Hungary.

With a full-page color plate of the dome of a great European monument on every page, turning the pages of this volume is not unlike pressing one's eye to a kaleidoscope, with ribs, mosaics, stone, gilt, stucco, wood, or painting spinning in patterns around an ever- present still center. The captions note the name of the monument and its date or dates of construction. A chapter by Victoria Hammond (an art historian in Australia) describing domes in European architecture follows the photos.

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