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Shadow-makers : = a cultural history of shadows in architecture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shadow-makers :/ Stephen Kite
Reminder of title:	a cultural history of shadows in architecture /
Author:	Kite, Stephen,
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages)
Subject:	Architecture and society - Handbooks, manuals, etc. -
Online resource:	https:/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nfu/detail.action?docID=4901321
ISBN:	9781472588128

Shadow-makers : = a cultural history of shadows in architecture /
Kite, Stephen,

Shadow-makers :a cultural history of shadows in architecture /Stephen Kite - 1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Shadow Beginnings; 2 Primordial Shadows; 3 'The art of Shaddowes'; 4 Shadows of the Sublime; 5 Gothic 'Gloomth'; 6 John Ruskin and Shadows of Power; 7 Shadow Carpets; 8 Shadows of the Unconscious; 9 Louis Kahn and the 'Treasury of Shadows'; 10 Shadow Futures; Bibliography; Index

"The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative - combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history - to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context - tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious

ISBN: 9781472588128

LCCN: 2017031289Subjects--Topical Terms:

1086827
Architecture and society
--Handbooks, manuals, etc.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: NA2543.S6 / K58 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 720.1/03

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520 $a Within a chronological framework encompassing medieval, baroque, enlightenment, sublime, picturesque, and modernist movements, a wide range of topics are explored, from Hawksmoor's London churches, Japanese temple complexes and the shade-patterns of Islamic cities, to Ruskin in Venice and Aldo Rossi and Louis Kahn in the 20th century. This beautifully-illustrated study seeks to understand the work of these shadow-makers through their drawings, their writings, and through the masterpieces they built "-- $c Provided by publisher
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