Minoan Architecture And Urbanism

Author : Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192512246

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism by Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett Pdf

Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Author : Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192512253

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism by Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett Pdf

Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110824575

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Minoan Architectural Design by Donald Preziosi Pdf

Author : John C. McEnroe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292778399

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Architecture of Minoan Crete by John C. McEnroe Pdf

A comprehensive, scholarly, engaging look at the meanings behind key architectural designs of ancient Minoan culture. Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others. Architecture of Minoan Crete is the first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture—including houses, palaces, tombs, and cities—from 7000 BC to 1100 BC. John C. McEnroe synthesizes the vast literature on Minoan Crete, with particular emphasis on the important discoveries of the past twenty years, to provide an up-to-date account of Minoan architecture. His accessible writing style, skillful architectural drawings of houses and palaces, site maps, and color photographs make this book inviting for general readers and visitors to Crete, as well as scholars.

Author : Louise Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042050925

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Minoan Architecture by Louise Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Joseph W. Shaw
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623033903

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Elite Minoan Architecture by Joseph W. Shaw Pdf

The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectual development concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia, and Phaistos where those very forms seem to have originated. Other Minoan towns and palaces in Crete are referenced when appropriate.

Author : Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623034269

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Daidalos at Work by Clairy Palyvou Pdf

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time. This book is firmly based on the realities of a long-silenced world available to us today through the agency of archaeology. In that sense, it addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. This dual goal emanates from my deep belief in the timeless and universal values of architecture. As a teacher of (history of) architecture, the challenge has been to bring history into the studios where future architecture is formulated, to engage history in the discourse on current architectural ethos and practices, and to show that an analytical and critical approach to the past is a potent tool for advancing architectural awareness and educating future architects. I am equally confident that such an approach will return its benefits back to history, for it will provide new tools of thought and methods of interpretation of the relics of the past. Having set the scope of this book, it is only fair to add what is not included in its goals: the reader will not find a descriptive account of Minoan buildings and sites nor a list of the major architectural achievements in chronological order. This is due not only to the enormous amount of relevant information that has been accumulated to date, but also to an altogether different interest in the subject, as described above. Time, however, is crucial: "We have a mental need to grasp that we are rooted in the continuity of time, and in the man-made world it is the task of architecture to facilitate this experience" (Pallasmaa 2005b, 32). Time-related issues, therefore, such as permanence and change or tradition and innovation, will concern us.

Author : Joseph W. Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 8861250726

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Minoan Architecture by Joseph W. Shaw Pdf

Author : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 9782875881007

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Minoan Realities by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment.

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567608086

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Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age by Keith Branigan Pdf

State-formation and the emergence of civilization have been two of the major arenas of debate in Aegean prehistory for the last twenty five years. The process of urbanization has therefore been at the forefront of scholarly debate. Bronze Age towns, however, have largely been ignored, particularly at a generalized level. Research has usually focused on their architecture, and particularly their elite or public architecture, rather than their general nature and character, and many studies have been restricted to a single town or even a single building. This volume redresses the balance and draws attention and thought not only to urban settlements as a whole but to their social and economic roles, their demographic significance and ultimately to their character and personality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004416659

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New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture by Anonim Pdf

New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture collects chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research.

Author : Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589965

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OIKOS by Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki Pdf

This collection of papers explores whether the Lévi-Straussian notion of the House is a valid concept in aiding the comprehension of the social structure of Bronze Age Aegean societies. The volume succeeds in stressing the advances made in the study of social structure of the Aegean on the basis of material remains.

Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009452069

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Minoan Zoomorphic Culture by Emily S. K. Anderson Pdf

Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals-engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls-contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities.

Author : Klaire Palyvou,Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1931534942

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Daidalos at Work by Klaire Palyvou,Clairy Palyvou Pdf

The Bronze Age was a time of affluence and innovation for Crete, a unique "moment" in the early history of architecture that, in a bizarre way, echos the modern world of the 20th century AD. The mythical Daidalos, with his many attributes and tasks, stands for the protoype of "an architect at work," following orders and desires set by his clients and by society. The labyrinth, as a paradigm of order, stands for the primordial idea of architeccture and a metaphor of human existence. In this book, architecture is the protagonist and phenomoneology the basic tool of thought. It addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm.

Author : Joachim Bretschneider,Jan Driessen,Karel van Lerberghe
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9042918314

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Power and Architecture by Joachim Bretschneider,Jan Driessen,Karel van Lerberghe Pdf

The idea that societies and rulers express their power through monumental architecture is not a new one, but this collection of essays, the result of a 2002 conference in Leuven, takes the arguement back to the very beginnings of monumental architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean, to ask if this process can be linked to a particular ...