In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, brick and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as themeans to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossibleto achieve. This was not mere medieval muddling-through but entailed a highlydeveloped set of norms and effective practices. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built under and by this regime, here given the name ‘Building-in-Time’. To understand it puts in an entirely newlight the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter’s, the apotheosis of the practice.
- ISBN: 978-0-300-16592-0
- Editorial: Yale University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés