Author: John SoanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Author: John SoaneGlorious Visions
Author: Helene FurjánPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136786732
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane’s house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today’s visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange accumulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space.
General Description of Sir John Soane's Museum
Author: Sir John Soane's house and museumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A General Description of Sir John Soane's Museum with Brief Notices of Some of the More Interesting Works of Art Therein
Author: Sir John Soane's MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
General Description of Sir John Soane's Museum
Author: Sir John Soane's MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Almanack of the Fine Arts ...
Author: Robert William BussPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Royal Companion to the "Sights of London" and Within Twenty-five Miles of St. Paul's
Author: Architecture and Narrative
Author: Sophia PsarraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134288867
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used and perceived. This intriguing book explores the ways in which these three dimensions interact in the design and life of buildings.
The Architecture of Ruins
Author: Jonathan HillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429770561
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and a ruin as creative, interdependent and simultaneous themes within a single building dialectic, addressing temporal and environmental questions in poetic, psychological and practical terms, and stimulating questions of personal and national identity, nature and culture, weather and climate, permanence and impermanence and life and death. Conceiving a building as a dialogue between a monument and a ruin intensifies the already blurred relations between the unfinished and the ruined and envisages the past, the present and the future in a single architecture. Structured around a collection of biographies, this book conceives a monument and a ruin as metaphors for a life and means to negotiate between a self and a society. Emphasising the interconnections between designers and the particular ways in which later architects learned from earlier ones, the chapters investigate an evolving, interdisciplinary design practice to show the relevance of historical understanding to design. Like a history, a design is a reinterpretation of the past that is meaningful to the present. Equally, a design is equivalent to a fiction, convincing users to suspend disbelief. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be delineated in drawing, cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The architect is a ‘physical novelist’ as well as a ‘physical historian’. Like building sites, ruins are full of potential. In revealing not only what is lost, but also what is incomplete, a ruin suggests the future as well as the past. As a stimulus to the imagination, a ruin’s incomplete and broken forms expand architecture’s allegorical and metaphorical capacity, indicating that a building can remain unfinished, literally and in the imagination, focusing attention on the creativity of users as well as architects. Emphasising the symbiotic relations between nature and culture, a building designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin acknowledges the coproduction of multiple authors, whether human, non-human or atmospheric, and is an appropriate model for architecture in an era of increasing climate change.
Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description