Building-in-time : from Giotto to Alberti and modern oblivion / Marvin Trachtenberg.
2010
NA1114 .T72 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Building-in-time : from Giotto to Alberti and modern oblivion / Marvin Trachtenberg.
Author
Trachtenberg, Marvin.
ISBN
9780300165920 (alk. paper)
0300165927 (alk. paper)
0300165927 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 490 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Call Number
NA1114 .T72 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
720.1/08
Summary
In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time". It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.
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In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time". It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
In modern oblivion: rethinking architecture, time, and history
Regimes of time consciousness in architectural lifeworlds
Premodern regimes of architecture and time
Building-in-time in "pre-Albertian" Italy
The art of building in time: Florentine practice
Reflections of practice aggrandizement and authority in building-in-time
Cohabiting temporalities of architectural practice in Brunelleschi
Alberti and Brunelleschi
Renaissance temporalities after Alberti
Afterword: crypto-Albertianism and the oblivion of building-in-time.
Regimes of time consciousness in architectural lifeworlds
Premodern regimes of architecture and time
Building-in-time in "pre-Albertian" Italy
The art of building in time: Florentine practice
Reflections of practice aggrandizement and authority in building-in-time
Cohabiting temporalities of architectural practice in Brunelleschi
Alberti and Brunelleschi
Renaissance temporalities after Alberti
Afterword: crypto-Albertianism and the oblivion of building-in-time.