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In Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World, Alexander G. McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates, and palatial buildings, and he pays particular attention to accounts of ancient writers that deal with such topics as house design, interiors, furnishings, and gardens. Describing innovative high-rise apartments, her compact civic squares, large public buildings, temples, shopping centers, and commercial areas, he shows that Roman civilization was astonishingly similar to our own. He also discusses the conditions of life in the Roman provinces, where recent discoveries have shed fresh light on private and communal living. McKay has enhanced the text by the inclusion of over 150 illustrations of plans, sites, and reconstructions.
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A Most Cruel and Inhuman Book!.......2000-06-06
This book has given me the incredible desire to take the rest of my life and do nothing except tour the archeological sites of classical Etruscan and Imperial Roman towns and cities! Alexander McKay- You are very cruel.
For many years I have seen pictures in books and online of fragments and ruins of buildings, which can be interesting but seeing the pictures in the context of a complete floor plan brings a sudden epiphany of how our forebearers lived. I spent 7 hours surfing on the net looking at the pictures online for a number of the palaces and houses included in this book and dreaming of an itinerary covering almost all of western Europe,northern Africa and great areas of the near and mid East. Now I need to go out and win a very large lottery to afford it.
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The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity
Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey
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The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration
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Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.
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An outstanding architectural history of the "good life".......1996-05-23
Rarely, perhaps once in a generation, does an enterprising scholar step forth with a truly novel research idea and the capacity to see it through. Du Prey's Villas of Pliny is just this: an utterly fascinating, deliciously composed, and copiously illustrated treatment of a neglected theme in architectural history. Although it is the authors object to document the perennial allure for post-medieval architects of Pliny the Youngers literary picture of villa life in ancient Rome, the books overall theme could be equally understood as the enduring architectural potency of one mans idea of the good life. Du Prey succeeds triumphantly both in the close compass of the historians exercise and in broader quality-of-life issues.
The book opens with a leisurely literary examination of Plinys Como letters and proceeds to articulate the four cardinal points of a villa described in the epistles to Gallus (bk. 2, ep. 17) and Apollinaris (bk. 5, ep. 6). Judiciously, Du Prey furnishes translations of these missives as appendices; the translation upon which he relies is John Boyles unsurpassed mid-eighteenth century text. After setting forth some of the basic themes that unite various projects across the centuries, the author proceeds through a historical sequence of reconstruction exercises and built designs each determined by a conscious reflection upon Plinys descriptions of his Laurentine and Tuscan villas. From the Medicis documented interest through various ruins and restitutions and emulations, Du Prey offers the reader an engaging tour through one of the most imaginatively fertile corridors of architectural history.
Although some of this material will be familiar to readers of James S. Ackermans recent study , Du Preys fidelity to the literary exigencies of his topic keeps him from wandering back to familiar stylistic comparisons with survey material. In fact, it is Du Preys tenacity in seeking out new imagery that keeps one eagerly turning the pages to digest the projects of Francesco Lazzari, William Newton, Stanislas Potocki, Friedrich August Krubsacius, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Louis-Pierre Haudebourt, Jules-Frdric Bouchet, and Hubert Stier. Not only has Du Prey expanded our understanding of historically well-established figures like Palladio and Flibien, he has also tilled the fields of relatively obscure talents to great advantage. The author dedicates the majority of one closing chapter to detailed discussions of several designs for a 1982 exhibition and colloquium in Paris; this amounts to a sustained essay in architectural criticism, and many readers will agree that, compared to his historical labors, this section constitutes the least successful portion of the book. Nevertheless, one hopes this study will generate an increased awareness of the significance of the Pliny theme and that other treatments such as Constantin Lipsiuss 1889 project in the archive of Dresdens Academy of Fine Arts will find their way into future editions.
The opportunity to survey such a rich thematic vein as Plinys legacy invites one to make new connections and associations. One such thought isThe Villas of Pliny should be regarded as a signal contribution to a growing awareness that, in terms of the History of Ideas, the overall continuity of much of nineteenth century art and architectural theory with what has been called the RenaissanceBaroque system is more in evidence than ever before. In other words, while generations of scholars have tended to locate the formal sources of modernity in the late-eighteenth century , the strands linking nineteenth-century ideas about art and creativity to much earlier periods are increasingly difficult to deny. Although such a perspective tends to attenuate the rupture of the High Modernism of the 1920s, the conceptual lineaments of historicism are perhaps better served.
Regardless of the books manifold historiographic value, its significance as a stirring, unforgettable read is impossible to deny.
[This review originally appeared in The New Criterion.]
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Book of Roman Villas and the Countryside (English Heritage)
Guy De LA Bedoyere
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Chedworth Roman Villa (Gloucesterhire) (National Trust Guidebooks Ser.)
Dr. Phillip Bethell
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Lullingstone Roman Villa (Handbooks for Teachers)
Iain Watson
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Gillian Clements
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Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure
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b /b b i Roman Villas /i /b explores the social structures of the Roman world by analyzing the plans of buildings, from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. br br The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. b /b b i Roman Villas /i /b provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Romans and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, compares the similarities and differences between house structures as well as effectively illustrates the arguments.
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North Leigh Roman Villa (Handbooks for Teachers)
Tony Hurley
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Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In Design Discourse, Victor Margolin gathers together a body of new writing in the emerging field of design studies. The contributors argue in different ways for a rethinking of design in light of its cultural significance and its powerful position in today's society.
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must for design students.......2001-04-15
I had referred to this during the course of my dissertation on visual indentity of brands. I realised that this book is excellent for design students to acquire an orientation on the aspects of design in a very wholisitic manner. It is perhaps one of the best books that i have read in the category of design criticism. I really enjoyed the manner in which it brings together a collection of essays by people from various design fields- this not only provides a great assessment tool as a whole but each essay is complete in its individual treatment. The issues that this book tackles is very timely and uses accuracy of language in explaining thoughts. It is open-ended in that it ties up social, cultural and economic aspects in the domain of design.
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Seit Beginn ihrer Karrieren in den 1960er Jahren sind die amerikanischen Künstler John Baldessari und Lawrence Weiner befreundet. In New York treffen sie den britischen Künstler Liam Gillick zu dem von Beatrix Ruf, Direktorin der Kunsthalle Zürich, moderierten Gespräch.
Die Metapher, seit jeher als künstlerisches Verfahren in Verwendung, ist ein wichtiges Problem im Werk dieser drei Künstler, die mit Sprache, Filmbildern und Installationen arbeiten. Im Gespräch eröffnen sich neue Erkenntnisse über die Metapher, über die Funktion der Kunst, über Architektur und über die Rollen und Interessen der Künstler und der Vermittler von Kunst. Ein Gespräch über die Kunstwelt und die Kunst in der Welt.
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Grammar As Interpretation: Greek Literature in Its Linguistic Contexts (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
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Looking at its subject from the stand point of modern discourse analysis, this study deals with problems of style etc. Its aim is to shed light on the interaction between the mechanism of the Greek and Latin languages as interactive tools and the structure of the texts that have come down to us. The interpretive orientation offered differs from most literary studies in its taking linguistic observations as point of departure, and its considering grammar as a positive factor in the interpretive process. It differs from most linguistic studies in the field in demonstrating the importance of linguistic methodology for classical philology in general. The book contains studies of various authors, genres, and text types, preceded by an introductory essay on the role of grammar in philology.
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