Stephen Kite

Shadow-Makers

A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,3 cm / 15,6 cm / 2,2 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 360 Seiten
EAN 9781472588098
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2017
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative - combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history - to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context - tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious. Within a chronological framework encompassing medieval, baroque, enlightenment, sublime, picturesque, and modernist movements, a wide range of topics are explored, from Hawksmoor's London churches, Japanese temple complexes and the shade-patterns of Islamic cities, to Ruskin in Venice and Aldo Rossi and Louis Kahn in the 20th century. This beautifully-illustrated study seeks to understand the work of these shadow-makers through their drawings, their writings, and through the masterpieces they built.

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Stephen Kite is Emeritus Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. His previous books include Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Shadow Beginnings 2. Primordial Shadows 3. 'The art of Shaddowes': the Baroque of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh 4. Shadows of the Sublime 5. Gothick 'Gloomth' 6. John Ruskin and Shadows of Power 7. Shadow Carpets 8. Shadows of the Unconscious: the Venice of Adrian Stokes and Aldo Rossi 9. Louis Kahn and the 'Treasury of Shadows' 10. Shadow Futures Bibliography Index

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