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Architecture and Cultural Continuity
The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity
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Architecture and Cultural Continuity
The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity
About this book
Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture – arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting.
A work in three parts, the book first analyses in-depth the Festival of San Giovanni in Florence, an annual series of celebrations involving the entire city. Tracing its history from its Roman origins via the Renaissance through to contemporary times, this case study is used to explore ideas of continuity and tradition and how these shape and are shaped by architecture and the city. Part 2 gathers theoretical tools from philosophy, anthropology, and performance studies to offer a framework for the appraisal of architecture – whether engaged in festival or simply part of the background to everyday life – as experience rather than form. The final part presents historic and contemporary case studies to explain the theory in practice, from Lord Leighton's House in London to Beit Beirut in Lebanon, and from Salisbury's medieval Chapterhouse to the contemporary Australian Parliament building.
Written for architectural theorists, historians, and designers alike, this book will allow the reader to assess architecture in a way that re-addresses aspects of history often obscured by post-enlightenment thinking, and reveals an architecture rooted in cultural traditions better able to contribute to the diverse communities of the future.
A work in three parts, the book first analyses in-depth the Festival of San Giovanni in Florence, an annual series of celebrations involving the entire city. Tracing its history from its Roman origins via the Renaissance through to contemporary times, this case study is used to explore ideas of continuity and tradition and how these shape and are shaped by architecture and the city. Part 2 gathers theoretical tools from philosophy, anthropology, and performance studies to offer a framework for the appraisal of architecture – whether engaged in festival or simply part of the background to everyday life – as experience rather than form. The final part presents historic and contemporary case studies to explain the theory in practice, from Lord Leighton's House in London to Beit Beirut in Lebanon, and from Salisbury's medieval Chapterhouse to the contemporary Australian Parliament building.
Written for architectural theorists, historians, and designers alike, this book will allow the reader to assess architecture in a way that re-addresses aspects of history often obscured by post-enlightenment thinking, and reveals an architecture rooted in cultural traditions better able to contribute to the diverse communities of the future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Architectural Experience and Festive Experience
- Part One – Festival, Culture and Experience
- 1 The Hermeneutics of Architecture and Festival
- 2 The Florentine Feast of San Giovanni, 24 June
- 3 The Origins and Development of the City of Florence
- 4 Culture, Representation and the Flowering of Civic Festival
- Part Two – Architecture, Culture and Experience
- 5 Architecture and Ontology
- 6 Civic Culture, Agonistic Order and Resistance
- 7 Domestic Life, Language, Knowledge and Literature
- Part Three – Case Studies
- 8 Architecture and the Rule of Movement: Hardwick Hall and the Pavillon Suisse
- 9 Architecture, Ornament and Theatricality: Weltenburg Abbey and the Rockefeller Center
- 10 Architecture, Orientalism and Heritage: Leighton House and Beit Beirut
- 11 Architecture, Politics and Landscape: Salisbury Chapter House and the Australian Parliament
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright