The Architecture Of Empire

Author : Laura Fernández-González
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271089966

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Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire by Laura Fernández-González Pdf

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king’s monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing them within the wider context of Europe and the transoceanic Iberian dominions. Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire investigates ideas of empire and globalization in the art and architecture of the Iberian world during the sixteenth century, a time when the Spanish Empire was one of the largest in the world. Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of building regulations to construct an imperial city in Madrid and highlights the importance of his transformation of the Simancas fortress into an archive. She analyzes the refashioning of his imperial image upon his ascension to the Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles in El Escorial as a lens through which to understand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral commemorations mourning his death across the Iberian world. Positioning Philip’s art and architectural programs within the wider cultural context of politics, legislation, religion, and theoretical trends, Fernández-González shows how design and images traveled across the Iberian world and provides a nuanced assessment of Philip’s role in influencing them. Original and important, this panoramic work will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic legacy. Art historians and scholars of Iberia and sixteenth-century history will especially value Fernández-González’s research.

Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773553767

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Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire by Gauvin Alexander Bailey Pdf

Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires – from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy.

Author : Zeynep Çelik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015079208198

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Empire, Architecture, and the City by Zeynep Çelik Pdf

Examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces, providing a nuanced look at cross-cultural exchanges.

Author : Louis P. Nelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300211009

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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica by Louis P. Nelson Pdf

Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.

Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136181153

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Empire Building by Mark Crinson Pdf

The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Author : Brian L. McLaren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004456181

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Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy by Brian L. McLaren Pdf

In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138039659

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Modern Architecture and the End of Empire by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300028199

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The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An introductory study by William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald Pdf

Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets

Author : G. A. Bremner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780198713326

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Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire by G. A. Bremner Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.

Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780228012443

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The Architecture of Empire by Gauvin Alexander Bailey Pdf

Most monumental buildings of France’s global empire – such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses – were built in South and Southeast Asia. Much of this architecture, and the history of who built it and how, has been overlooked. The Architecture of Empire considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina, the largest colony France ever administered in Asia. Offering a sweeping panorama of the buildings of France’s colonial project, this is the first study to encompass the architecture of both the ancien régime and modern empires, from the founding of the French trading company in the seventeenth century to the independence and nationalist movements of the mid-twentieth century. Gauvin Bailey places particular emphasis on the human factor: the people who commissioned, built, and lived in these buildings. Almost all of these architects, both Europeans and non-Europeans, have remained unknown beyond – at best – their surnames. Through extensive archival research, this book reconstructs their lives, providing vital background for the buildings themselves. Much more than in the French empire of the Western Hemisphere, the buildings in this book adapt to indigenous styles, regardless of whether they were designed and built by European or non-European architects. The Architecture of Empire provides a unique, comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercultural exchange in the history of global empires.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015011962431

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Architecture of the British Empire by Jan Morris Pdf

Author : Aurelia Campbell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746890

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What the Emperor Built by Aurelia Campbell Pdf

One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world’s largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor. Focusing on the imperial palaces in Beijing, a Daoist architectural complex on Mount Wudang, and a Buddhist temple on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, Aurelia Campbell demonstrates how the siting, design, and use of Yongle’s palaces and temples helped cement his authority and legitimize his usurpation of power. Campbell offers insight into Yongle’s sense of empire—from the far-flung locations in which he built, to the distant regions from which he extracted construction materials, and to the use of tens of thousands of craftsmen and other laborers. Through his constructions, Yongle connected himself to the divine, interacted with his subjects, and extended imperial influence across space and time. Spanning issues of architectural design and construction technologies, this deft analysis reveals remarkable advancements in timber-frame construction and implements an art-historical approach to examine patronage, audience, and reception, situating the buildings within their larger historical and religious contexts.

Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521521572

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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine by Noel Emmanuel Lenski Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.

Author : William Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300034709

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The Architecture of the Roman Empire by William Lloyd MacDonald Pdf

Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets

Author : Lynne C. Lancaster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107059351

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Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire by Lynne C. Lancaster Pdf

This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques and explores why each is confined to a particular area of the Empire. It is written to be accessible to advanced students as well as experts in the field.