This work is aimed at both Architecture students and scholars of other forms of Art. The author seeks to bring to the forefront the primary objectives of Architecture through its History. To highlight this art as a significant factor in the overall social phenomenon and to present architecture as a dialectic between inner and outer space.
These topics are not exhausted with this book, but the aim is to open a discussion regarding how Architecture influences and shapes our spirit and soul, through historical examples, reaching up to Modern Greek Architecture.
Contents:
1. AESTHETIC PRELIMINARIES
Human-space and form relationships
Theory of empathy
Semiotic theory
The artistic principle of the "infinite"
Psychology of form or Gestalt theory
Space and object
2. CONSIDERATION OF BASIC HISTORICAL UNITS
Prehistory
Egypt
Greece
First Roman period
Second Roman period-Byzantium
Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Architecture
Renaissance
Mannerism
Baroque
Architecture from the Industrial Revolution to the 20th century
Architecture in the second half of the 18th century
Architecture in the 19th century
Twentieth Century
Architecture in the first half of the twentieth century
Architecture of the interwar period
Architecture in the second half of the twentieth century
Recent developments
3. EPILOGUES
On the Cosmic obsession of Architects
On form and its evolution
The concept of the Universe in everyday life or regarding the philosophical establishment of societies
The question of the end of History
The meaning of religions and the proposition of modernity
Art as a Ark of Culture and the Historicity of the Modern Greek example
Manufacturer
- Author
- Nikitas CHiotinis
- Publisher
- Ekdotikos Omilos Ion
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- Architecture as a dialectic of interior - exterior space or architecture as a predominantly inter-worldly practice
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 205
- Release Date
- 12/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Art Movement
- Renaissance, Baroque, Modernism
- Art Albums
- Yes
- Subjects
- Architecture, Decoration, Cinema, Theory & History of Art
- ISBN-13
- 9789605080044
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