Timeless cities : an architect's reflections on Renaissance Italy / David Mayernik.

Main entry:

Mayernik, David, author.

Title & Author:

Timeless cities : an architect's reflections on Renaissance Italy / David Mayernik.

Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, [2003]
©2003

Description:

274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
"An Icon edition."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index.
Rome: the memory city -- Venice and the sea: the city of Venus -- Florence vs. Siena: the battle for paradise -- Pienza: small town, big idea.

Summary:

"In Timeless Cities, architect David Mayernik reveals how Rome, Venice, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0813365929 (alk. paper)
9780813365923 (alk. paper)
0813342988 (paperback)
9780813342986 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architecture, Renaissance
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Receptie.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture romaine Italie.
Italy
Italië.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228698
Call No.: NA44.M4682.A35 2003
Status: Available

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