Main entry:

Trachtenberg, Marvin.

Title & Author:

Building-in-time : from Giotto to Alberti and modern oblivion / Marvin Trachtenberg.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxv, 490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents DE-576;DE-16

ISBN:

9780300165920 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300165927 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Italy.
Architectural practice Italy History.
Building Italy.
Architecture Philosophy History.
Time.
Architecture Italie.
Construction Italie.
Temps.
Architecture Philosophie Histoire.
time.
Architecture and Planning.
Architectural practice
Architecture
Architecture Philosophy
Building
Architektur
Philosophie
Zeit
Architekturästhetik Italien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Architekturästhetik Renaissance Italien.
Architektur Renaissance Italien.
Architektur Aktualität Italien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Aktualität Architektur Italien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Arkitektur Italien.
Constitutional law Italien.
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269884
Call No.: BIB 202365
Status: Available