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Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul
A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.
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A Transitory Star
Examining Bernini's works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and material examination, archival research, and comparative textual analysis.
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Are Ecological Design Principles Becoming the Norm in Contemporary Landscape Design? A Comparative Analysis of Realized Park Projects (2015–2025)
This paper investigates the extent to which ecological design principles are integrated into contemporary park design and whether they represent a new landscape design paradigm. It also presents a theoretical literature review and a selection of key ecological principles that form the basis for the subsequent analysis. Based on comparative analysis of 224 realized projects (2015–225) sourced from the Landezine online platform, the research examines the frequency, typology and spatial impact of declared ecological design principles. Although relatively few principles are explicitly mentioned in individual projects, their spatial impact is constantly evident, ranging from minimal to paradigmatic. The frequently declared principles include habitat preservation, stormwater management and reuse of structures on site, with new priorities such as community involvement, innovation, and resilience are also emerging. The design composition analysis confirms that ecological design principles are embedded across both brownfield and non-brownfield contexts, reflecting their widespread application. These findings suggest that EDPs have become essential to shaping resilient and adaptive landscapes. However, further advancement of ecological design depends on deeper integration of theory and practice, interdisciplinary collaboration and context-sensitive application.
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Principles of Urbanscape Transformation in the Historical Perimeter of Split, Croatia
The genesis of the historical core of the city of Split, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, rests on the continuity of urban life. The city has been subject to constant change over the course of almost two millennia, transforming from an ancient imperial palace into today’s city. The ever-changing urban landscape implies the need for a continual dialogue between old and new, especially considering the efforts made throughout history to develop a new image of the city. By analysing three examples—Milesi Palace from the Baroque period, Bajamonti Palace from the age of Classicism, and Nakić Palace from the Secession period, all national heritage listed buildings, the significance of the urban logic behind their construction, as well as the impact these buildings had on the image of the city, is established. All three buildings are located on the perimeter of the city’s public zone, and in different periods, they established new sets of urban rules, which they hold to this day. By researching their influence on the formation of Split’s urban tissue on their immediate and wider surroundings, their role in the city-building process is defined, thus revealing their impact on the formation of the urbanscape, as well as the relationships between architectural heritage and the city’s transformation.
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Geoffrey Scott and Modern Architectural Thought
Geoffrey Scott's influential book The Architecture of Humanism has become an irrevocable part of the architectural canon. The origin of Scott's ideas and their theoretical framework can be traced to Bernard Berenson's little-known essay \"A Word for Renaissance Churches.\" This article will delineate a line of influence from Scott's own mentor to the subsidiary authors who disseminated his theories throughout modern architecture over the course of a century. Though it has always been placed within the classical camp this article will, for the first time, underscore its influence within the modernist field of thought before and after World War II.
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Reflections on Baroque
From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. Architecture, paintings, poetry, music, natural science and new forms of piety all have their places on the Baroque map. In this surprising reinterpretation of the Baroque, Robert Harbison offers new readings that stress its eccentric and tumultuous forms, in which a destablized sense of reality is often projected onto the viewer. This strange, subjectively inclined world is manifested in such bizarre phenomena as the small stuccoed universes of Giacomo Serpotta, the Sacred Mounts of Piedmont and the grimacing heads of F. X. Messerschmidt. Harbison explores the Baroque's metamorphoses into later styles, particularly the Rococo, and, in an unexpected twist, pursues the Baroque idea into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proposing provocative analyses of pastiches or imitations (in Der Rosenkavalier and the work of Aubrey Beardsley) or resemblances (deliberate or not) in Czech Cubism and Frank Gehry's architecture. Reflections on Baroque demonstrates that the Baroque impulse lives on in the twenty-first century imagination.
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RESTORATION AS AN ENGINE FOR REGENERATING THE COMMUNITY
Diverse ethnic and confessional structure is defining the Banat region. Current cultural heritage is the result of long-term coexistence and interaction of ethnic groups inhabiting the western area of Romania (the ethnic structure consisted of Romanians, Germans, Hungarians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and others). Even without intrinsic declared monument value, wall churches summarize features and community values, ethnical identity. Although the number of religious buildings is overwhelming compared to the number of schools and social facilities, contemporary phenomenon stands for building new churches without significance for the area. The initiators often resort to foreign and dramatic gestures (in scale and decoration) in order to remind us of the need for spiritual life. At the same time, cult buildings with true architectural and symbolic significance for the society are often found in serious state of degradation due to ignorant communities, incorrect constructive interventions, and lack of financial resources, political strategy and appreciation of the heritage value. Contemporary society constantly reviews its relationship with the institution of the church. A current issue would be finding ways for reusing the churches that have lost the congregation from various causes (depopulation of some areas, relocation, and migration to other cult) and, therefore, the religious significance. The current research based on case studies of diverse church-community interaction within the area aims to establish long-term strategies and viable solutions in order to involve the remaining community in maintaining and preserving their local church. While Romanian construction market is flooded with new materials and technologies, old crafts are fading rapidly. The purpose of this study is identifying the local values in terms of building knowledge, details and crafts, use of local materials in order to conceive a sustainable restoration strategy. Reviving these values through education can be an engine for the community regeneration. However, a correct restoration intervention on the church as the center of the community will be appreciated as an example of good practice within the society, being perpetuated and applied to other built programs.
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Rembrandt's passion series
Rembrandt's Passion Series is the name given to five paintings of similar size and format executed over a six year time-frame, 1633-39. The works were commissioned by Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Provinces, for his gallery at The Hague. Although each of the paintings depicts a traditional scene from the Passion of Christ, they do not form anything like a complete Passion Cycle. Seven years later, Hendrick ordered a further two works of the same size and format of subjects from the Nativity of Christ. Six of the seven paintings now hang in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. As the works were executed between Rembrandt's well-documented early Leiden period and his rapid rise to prominence as a portraitist in Amsterdam, the works have not attracted the scholarly attention they might, although the commission was undoubtedly the most prestigious of the young Rembrandt's career. Rembrandt's Passion Series is the first monograph to focus solely on this important group of paintings by the most famous artist of the Dutch Golden Age. In it, Simon McNamara traces the history of the commission by way of extant documentation, places the works in a seventeenth-century Dutch religious milieu, and shows how the series is both reflective of contemporary theological exegesis and embedded in theoretical artistic debates of the age. The book also highlights the extraordinary nature of the self-images seen in three of the paintings and discusses the legacy of the series in later graphic works by Rembrandt and in paintings by his pupils. In doing so, Rembrandt's Passion Series presents a series of unifying factors, both stylistically and thematically, for the works that allows the Passion Series to be properly, and finally, called a \"series\".
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