Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

Festival Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135992750
• Artikelnr.: 38250390

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy have been involved in festival architecture since 1987, designing, lecturing and writing about it. Their book Architecture and Nature: creating the American landscape (Routledge 2003) won the 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize from the Society of Architectural Historians. They teach design and architectural history at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy Part 1: Ritual and
Architecture in Antiquity 2. The Festive Experience: Roman Processions in
the Urban Context Diane Favro Part 2: Renaissance and Baroque Spectacle as
Representations of Power 3. Festival Bridal Entries in Renaissance Ferrara
Diane Yvonne Ghirardo 4. Festivals of State: The Representation of Power in
Late Renaissance and Baroque Venice Margherita Azzi Visentini 5. Statecraft
or Stagecraft? English Paper Architecture in the Seventeenth Century
Caroline van Eck 6. Framing History: The Jubilee of 1625, the Dedication of
New Saint Peter's and the Baldacchino Maarten Delbeke Part 3: Eighteenth
Century Festivals and Urban Beautification 7. The Speculative Challenges of
Festival Architecture in Eighteenth Century France Eric Monin Part 4: World
Expositions and the Idea of Modernity 8. Marking Time and Space in the
City: Kromhout's Decorations for the Investiture of Wilhelmina in Amsterdam
Nancy Stieber 9. Sound, Light, and the Mystique of Space in Paris, 1937
Robert Weddle Part 5: Festivals of Resistance 10. Festival Urbanism:
Carnival as an Expression of Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Basel
Christine Macy 11. Taking Back the Street, Paris 1968-1978 Sarah
Bonnemaison