The Architecture of Greece
Sokratis Georgiadis(Author)
Edition Axel Menges (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-3-930698-95-0 (ISBN)
Description
Since the cultural rediscovery of Greece in the 18th century the image of Greek architecture in the Western world has been dominated by the monuments of antiquity. Only by the end of the 19th century what had by then become an archaeological obsession ceased to be so exceedingly exclusive, so that the study of the religious architecture of the Middle Ages could be established as a new field of research. Still, the period from the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 up to the creation of modern Greece in the early 19th century was left out of account and something similar happened to Greek Neo-Classicism as well as to Greek Modernism in the 20th century. The book is based on the conviction that what has been neglected and ignored up to our days is worth considering within a pluralistic account of the architecture of Greece. Thus, it offers a rich, multifaceted view of Greek architecture from the Cretan Palace of Knossos to the recently opened Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki.
The unsurpassed Periclean monuments on the Athenian Acropolis obtain the attention they deserve, but the works of Leo von Klenze, Friedrich Gartner or the brothers Hans Christian and Theophil Hansen and some other Classicists in the Greek capital are examined as well and so are the works of the Greek Rationalists of the period between the two World Wars. Special attention is given to the anonymous architecture of the islands as well as of mainland Greece. In order to be useful as a traveller's guide the book is organized topographically. Insightful introductions to the various regions and cities provide the reader with historical background information.
Since the cultural rediscovery of Greece in the 18th century the image of Greek architecture in the Western world has been dominated by the monuments of antiquity. Only by the end of the 19th century what had by then become an archaeological obsession ceased to be so exceedingly exclusive, so that the study of the religious architecture of the Middle Ages could be established as a new field of research. Still, the period from the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 up to the creation of modern Greece in the early 19th century was left out of account and something similar happened to Greek Neo-Classicism as well as to Greek Modernism in the 20th century. The book is based on the conviction that what has been neglected and ignored up to our days is worth considering within a pluralistic account of the architecture of Greece. Thus, it offers a rich, multifaceted view of Greek architecture from the Cretan Palace of Knossos to the recently opened Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki.
The unsurpassed Periclean monuments on the Athenian Acropolis obtain the attention they deserve, but the works of Leo von Klenze, Friedrich Gartner or the brothers Hans Christian and Theophil Hansen and some other Classicists in the Greek capital are examined as well and so are the works of the Greek Rationalists of the period between the two World Wars. Special attention is given to the anonymous architecture of the islands as well as of mainland Greece. In order to be useful as a traveller's guide the book is organized topographically. Insightful introductions to the various regions and cities provide the reader with historical background information.
The unsurpassed Periclean monuments on the Athenian Acropolis obtain the attention they deserve, but the works of Leo von Klenze, Friedrich Gartner or the brothers Hans Christian and Theophil Hansen and some other Classicists in the Greek capital are examined as well and so are the works of the Greek Rationalists of the period between the two World Wars. Special attention is given to the anonymous architecture of the islands as well as of mainland Greece. In order to be useful as a traveller's guide the book is organized topographically. Insightful introductions to the various regions and cities provide the reader with historical background information.
Since the cultural rediscovery of Greece in the 18th century the image of Greek architecture in the Western world has been dominated by the monuments of antiquity. Only by the end of the 19th century what had by then become an archaeological obsession ceased to be so exceedingly exclusive, so that the study of the religious architecture of the Middle Ages could be established as a new field of research. Still, the period from the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 up to the creation of modern Greece in the early 19th century was left out of account and something similar happened to Greek Neo-Classicism as well as to Greek Modernism in the 20th century. The book is based on the conviction that what has been neglected and ignored up to our days is worth considering within a pluralistic account of the architecture of Greece. Thus, it offers a rich, multifaceted view of Greek architecture from the Cretan Palace of Knossos to the recently opened Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki.
The unsurpassed Periclean monuments on the Athenian Acropolis obtain the attention they deserve, but the works of Leo von Klenze, Friedrich Gartner or the brothers Hans Christian and Theophil Hansen and some other Classicists in the Greek capital are examined as well and so are the works of the Greek Rationalists of the period between the two World Wars. Special attention is given to the anonymous architecture of the islands as well as of mainland Greece. In order to be useful as a traveller's guide the book is organized topographically. Insightful introductions to the various regions and cities provide the reader with historical background information.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Fellbach
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
300ill.
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 222 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-930698-95-0 (9783930698950)
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Sokratis Georgiadis studied architecture at the Technische Universitat Berlin and did his doctorate at Stuttgart University. In 1987 he joined the staff at the Institut fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, where he served as curator of the Sigfried-Giedion-Archiv and published his book Sigfried Giedion: Eine inteliektuelle Biographie. From 1994 he has been professor of history and theory of architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart.
Sokratis Georgiadis studied architecture at the Technische Universitat Berlin and did his doctorate at Stuttgart University. In 1987 he joined the staff at the Institut fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, where he served as curator of the Sigfried-Giedion-Archiv and published his book Sigfried Giedion: Eine inteliektuelle Biographie. From 1994 he has been professor of history and theory of architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart.
Sokratis Georgiadis studied architecture at the Technische Universitat Berlin and did his doctorate at Stuttgart University. In 1987 he joined the staff at the Institut fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, where he served as curator of the Sigfried-Giedion-Archiv and published his book Sigfried Giedion: Eine inteliektuelle Biographie. From 1994 he has been professor of history and theory of architecture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart.