Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300165927 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 516 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Planning and building, which had formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time excluded from architectural facture. This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture – yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion. Ironically, it was Brunelleschi, as creator of the cupola of Florence cathedral and one of the supreme practitioners of Building-in-Time, who was the lynchpin of Alberti’s turn to the arts in the mid-1430s. In particular, 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 – are thus cast in an entirely new light. Even as ‘Building-in-Time’ was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new temporal regime whereby time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture (‘Building-outside-Time’). Not mere medieval muddling-through, this entailed a sophisticated set of norms and practices. In pre-modern Europe, the architect built not just with imagination, brick and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration to erect monum
Five Stars Filomena Daleandro Brilliant scholarly tome! Excellent Book!!!
This major, well-illustrated review and synthesis expands his 1997 book Dominion of the Eye. "Marvin Trachtenberg has devoted decades to elevating the status of the buildings of late medieval and early Renaissance Florence and replacing historians’myths with credible facts and insightful interpretations. Here again we find keen observations closely coordinated with extensive new documentation."—Carroll William Westfall, Renaissance Quarterly