Main entry:

Malfona, Lina, 1980- author.

Title & Author:

The mannerist phase in architecture : on early style, with an unpublished text by Paolo Portoghesi / Lina Malfona.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Description:

xiii, 140 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reorganized and rewritten from an earlier version published in Italian under the title La condizione manierista (Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2021).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maniera, mannerism, and other manias. Maniera vs. agency -- Enigma and ambiguity -- Variation and haecceity -- Imitation and referentiality -- The erudite and the untamed -- Adolescent architecture. The mannerist phase -- Postmodern mannerism -- Chunky, bizarre, sophisticated -- Mannerism as a method. Voluptuous stillness -- Mute façades, or theatrical backdrops -- Parallel and continuous interior -- Repertoire -- Conclusions -- Paolo Portoghesi, The idea of mannerism.

Summary:

"This book frames mannerism as an inescapable stage in the creative process. The mannerist phase is usually an adolescent stage of language, preceding the consolidation of thought. It is that period, as fertile as it is anguished, in which each author engages in a dialogue with his or her past, reinterpreting or completely transforming it. The mannerist phase is that period when architects design spaces, not yet knowing what it means to design places. The mannerist condition can be short-lived or protracted until it becomes systemic. In all cases, it is a period of research experienced by architects who are also intellectuals, that is, architects who operate between the practice of making and the elaboration of a personal design philosophy, within a perspective in which history, theory and criticism are intertwined. In this sense, the mannerist condition can also be defined as the style of the academic thought. The book explores the work of many authors, analyzing their relationship to history and how they managed to emerge from its shadow. Of interest to academics, scholars and students studying the theory of architecture, this book offers an unconventional, transtemporal reading of mannerism, where facts, events, and images belonging to different times and spaces are juxtaposed to generate a series of temporal paradoxes"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781041014911 (hardback)
1041014910
9781041014935 (paperback)
1041014937
(ebook)
9781003615071
ePub ebook
9781040385425
PDF ebook
9781040385418

Subject:

Mannerism (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Maniérisme (Architecture)
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.

Added entries:

Portoghesi, Paolo, writer of foreword.
Malfona, Lina, 1980- Condizione manierista.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319474
Call No.: 319474
Copy: 1
Status: Available