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Journal articles on the topic "Imperial architect"
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BALABANLILAR, LISA. "The Emperor Jahangir and the Pursuit of Pleasure." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 19, no. 2 (April 2009): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186308009395.
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The Mughal emperors of India were remarkably mobile kings, inspiring modern historians to describe their imperial court culture as ‘peripatetic’. While the Mughals were not immune to the impulse to construct massive urban architect, no Mughal city, no matter how splendid, innovative, accessible or enlightened, remained the imperial centre for long. Through generations of Mughal rule in India, the political relevance of Mughal imperial cities continued to be very limited; it was physical mobility which remained at the centre of Mughal imperial court life and, for much of the Mughal period, the imperial court was encapsulated in the physical presence of the king.
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Shcherbak, Nadezhda L’vovna. "V. I. Sobol’schikov – library scientist and architect of Imperial Public Library." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture 1 (March 2019): 180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2019-1-180-185.
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Figol, Dmitry Dmitrievich, and Mikhail Evgenevich Bazilevich. "Nikitin's apartment buildings in Chita." Урбанистика, no. 3 (March 2022): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2022.3.38653.
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The article reflects the results of the research conducted within the framework of the scientific project "Architects and engineers of the eastern suburbs of Russia (the second half of the XIX – beginning of the XX century)". The publication examines the creative activity of the famous Trans-Baikal architect, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts Gavriil Vlasevich Nikitin, who worked in Chita at the beginning of the XX century. Brief biographical information is provided concerning the educational training of the architect, as well as his professional activities on the "outskirts" of the Russian Empire. On the basis of archival data and materials of field surveys, seven preserved buildings of apartment buildings built in the capital of Transbaikalia according to his projects have been identified. A brief digression into the history of the construction of these facilities is given, their spatial planning and stylistic features are considered. Apartment houses authored by G. V. Nikitin are of unconditional interest for historical and architectural science not only as examples of regional architecture of the pre-revolutionary period, but also as an example of the work of this master on a private order. Carrying out projects for representatives of the Chita merchant class, the architect managed to create a number of expressive structures that met the socio-economic and aesthetic needs of his time, as well as set the tone for the subsequent development of the central district of the city. The study showed that the architect mainly worked in the forms of eclecticism, skillfully combining motifs and elements of different architectural styles, thereby managing to form his own, well-recognized author's handwriting.
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Shcherbak, N. L. "Reading room of architect V. I. Sobolshchikov of the Imperial Public Library." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 3 (44) (September 2020): 172–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2020-3-172-177.
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In November 1862, a great event took place in the Library - the fi rst in its history a special reading room for 250 seats was opened, built according to the project of V. I. Sobolshchikov and his assistant I. I. Gornostaev, laid down under the director M. A. Korf , but completed already in the directorship of I. D. Delyanov. The appearance in the Public Library of a new, spacious and comfortable hall for receiving visitors with a special study for artists and a room for ladies ushered in a new era. In the hall itself, a reference library of several thousand books was organized, and the supply of books from departments to the reading room was accelerated. In the reading room, instead of one general catalog for a subsidiary fund, there were seven printed systematic catalogs. The article recreates the history of the reading room in the pre-revolutionary period, provides information about its managers, gives a description of the organization of services for readers in it.
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Davydich, Tatyana F. "Architect A.N.Beketov. Life and Creative Work." Scientific journal “ACADEMIA. ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION”, no. 2 (July 11, 2018): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22337/2077-9038-2018-2-27-34.
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In the article the features of creativity of the Kharkov architect A.N. Beketov were considered, who had graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (with a Big Golden Medal, 1888). The very first of his works gave the new development of the central streets and squares of Kharkiv (in enlarged, really capital scale). He came to work in Kharkov at his own request, and in 1889 he won a competition for the project of Commercial School building, which was realised. In the 1890-s and the 1910-s, A.N. Beketov supervised his own design bureau, which dealt not only with the design, but with the organization of construction works. In 1894, for a library project for one and a half million volumes, he received the title of academician of architecture. In accordance with the obtained education, A.N. Beketov freely operated with forms of various historical styles and because this he was a typical for his time architect- eclecticist. In total, A.N. Beketov built more than 40 public and residential buildings in Kharkov and about 60 in other cities of the Russian Empire and in the USSR. The main buildings on Beketov's projects in Kharkov are concentrated in the area between Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya streets. Particularly interesting are the buildings of mansions, built on his projects, including three of his own. He designed public buildings in Neo-Renaissance, «Beaux-Arts» and Neoclassicism styles, and his projects of the mansions had more diverse stylistic solutions, taking into account their perception in the urban environment and the relations with surrounding buildings adjacent areas. On the street of Myrrhbearers was formed an interesting kind of ensemble of Beketov's mansions, which are now usedas the professional clubs and the central city's art museum.
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Shcherbak, Nadezhda L. "I. I. Gornostaev – architect, art historian, teacher: to the 200th anniversary of the birth." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 2 (47) (2021): 182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2021-2-182-188.
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The theme of preserving national culture is associated with the work of the famous architect and art historian Ivan Ivanovich Gornostaev (1821–1874), who popularized Russian culture and its unique originality. The article examines the activities of I. I. Gornostaev as the architect of the Imperial Public Library (his main works are a special room for storing incunabula («Faust’s Cabinet») and the New Reading Room (together with the architect V. I. Sobolshchikov)), as well as Saint-Petersburg University (according to his designs, a building was built for a botanical laboratory with a greenhouse, and the building was rebuilt «for playing ball» to accommodate a library, a physics study and an observatory there). He is the author of two projects – the Iversky Cathedral of the NikoloBabaevsky Monastery and the Kazan Cathedral of the Transfiguration Ust Medveditsky Monastery. Reflected his achievements in teaching as the author of the first systematic course in the history of fine arts in Russia. The role of I. I. Gornostaev in the study of the history of art of the Ancient World, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is shown.
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LAZAREVSKAYA, N., and M. MEDVEDEVA. "«NEITHER BENDS NOR BREAKS…». THE ARCHITECT NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH BACHINSKY AND HIS DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE IN THE ARCHIVE OF THE STATE ACADEMY OF THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE." TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE Russian Academy of Science 23 (2020): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.31600/2310-6557-2020-23-187-200.
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In the 1920s–1930s the State Academy of the History of Material Culture, following in steps of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, continued active works in Central Asia. By the order of the Academy, the architect Nikolai Mikhailovich Bachinsky worked in Central Asia in the 1930s, but his name is barely mentioned in publications devoted to the Academy activities, and the materials he collected were published only partly. The Scholarly Archive of IHMC RAS stores documents relating to his research activity, manuscripts of papers and unique photographs of a number of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan monuments taken in the late 1920s–1930s (fig. 3–6). The publication of these materials will allow to introduce into the scientific discourse the works of an authoritative architect and restorer, whose activity was highly esteemed by his contemporaries.
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Yilmaz, Ahenk. "Memorialization on War-Broken Ground." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 328–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.328.
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Memorialization on War-Broken Ground: Gallipoli War Cemeteries and Memorials Designed by Sir John James Burnet focuses on the problems posed by the endeavor to memorialize the Gallipoli campaign of World War I and the memorials designed by the principal architect of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, Sir John James Burnet. The commission’s work in Gallipoli is different from the memorials on the western front not only because its location is on “enemy” land but also because Burnet’s modifications of the commission’s design principles were developed to represent a coherent imperial identity around the world. AhenkYılmaz analyzes these modifications and the motives behind them to demonstrate the process by which the landscape and the stories of the campaign shaped the techniques of commemoration on this war-broken ground.
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Smyth, Fiona. "‘A Matter of Practical Emergency’: Herbert Baker, Hope Bagenal, and the Acoustic Legacy of the Assembly Chamber in Imperial Delhi." Architectural History 62 (2019): 113–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/arh.2019.5.
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AbstractIn 1923, at the request of the government of India, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in Britain authorised a specialist research stream. Its purpose was to investigate problems in architectural acoustics specifically related to the new Assembly Chamber then under construction in Imperial Delhi. The design, by Sir Herbert Baker, was unusual for its era in that it was refined with recourse to measured data and calculations with a basis in modern physics. The acoustician, or ‘consulting architect’, was Hope Bagenal, and his appointment by Baker in 1922 marked the first international commission of a British acoustic consultant. This article examines the acoustic design of the Assembly Chamber in Delhi and identifies the inputs of the various individuals, both architects and scientists, involved. Drawing on the archives of Baker and Bagenal, the records of the DSIR and the Guastavino Company, as well as contemporaneous newspaper coverage, it also demonstrates the longer-term implications of the design and construction process at Delhi, including its role in stimulating subsequent government-funded research in architectural acoustics in Britain.
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Tschudi, Victor Plahte. "Plaster Empires." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 386–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.3.386.
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The so-called Plastico di Roma is one of Rome’s great attractions. The extraordinary detailed plaster reconstruction of fourth-century Rome monopolizes the image of the imperial city for scholars and visitors alike. Archaeology played an important but small part in the making of the model. The majority of buildings consist of volumetric modules, invented by the “architect” Italo Gismondi and his team, to mask and replace the missing architectural evidence. Victor Plahte Tschudi traces the impact of Gismondi’s invented antiques in Plaster Empires: Italo Gismondi’s Model of Rome. Completed in 1937, in time for the fascist exhibition (the Mostra Augustea), the model gave Fascist modernism a seeming imperial origin. It also legitimized, even inspired, the regime’s town planning policy and brutal overhaul to redeem Rome’s ancient monuments. Reconsidering the history and ideology of the model is crucial as Gismondi’s eighty-year-old inventions of the city reappear today in cutting-edge virtual reconstruction projects.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Imperial architect"
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Siwicki, Christopher Stephen. "Architectural restoration and the concept of built heritage in Imperial Rome." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17971.
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This study examines the practice of restoring public buildings in ancient Rome and attendant attitudes towards them in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. Drawing on a combination of archaeological and textual evidence and focusing primarily on six decades from the Great Fire of AD 64 to the AD 120s, a period of dramatic urban transformation and architectural innovation, it explores the ways in which individual structures and the cityscape as a whole was rebuilt. With specific reference to the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, it is shown how buildings developed through successive reconstructions and that the prevailing approach was to modernise the aesthetic and materiality of structures, rather than to restore them to their original appearance. Furthermore, by recognising the importance of religion as a potential agent in the restoration process, a new interpretation of the exceptional treatment of the casa Romuli is proposed. With the intention of uncovering attitudes to built heritage in society more widely, the study goes beyond analysing the physical treatment of buildings to consider also how changes to the urban fabric were received by those who experienced them firsthand. Through examining descriptions of destruction and restoration in literature of the period, particularly in the works of Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Martial and Tacitus, an insight is gained into the ways that Romeâs inhabitants responded to the redevelopment of their historic built environment. This thesis argues for a Roman concept of built heritage that is dramatically different from many modern ideas on the subject. The findings question the extent to which the historical value and identity of a structure resided in its physicality, and demonstrates that the Roman concern for historic buildings did not equate to preservation of historic architecture.
Books on the topic "Imperial architect"
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Inc, Softdesk, ed. AdCADD architectural: Auto-architect tutorial (imperial). Henniker, NH (7 Liberty Hill Rd., Henniker 03242): Softdesk, 1993.
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Inc, Softdesk, ed. AdCADD architectural: Auto-architect tutorial (imperial). Henniker, NH (7 Liberty Hill Rd., Henniker 03242): Softdesk, 1992.
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Macaulay and son: Architects of imperial Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
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Oksanish, John. Vitruvian Man. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696986.001.0001.
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This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture. Once reviled by scholars as a half-witted proletarian, Vitruvius emerges as well read and politically able when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. No building of Vitruvius’s name survives from antiquity, but his treatise remains a formidable literary construction that partakes of Rome’s vibrant textual culture. The book explores Vitruvius’s portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing “Vitruvian man” at the dawn of Augustus’s empire. In direct dialogue with his republican model, Cicero’s ideal orator, the architect embodies a distinctly imperial civic ethos in which technically skilled partisans supersede old elites as guarantors of Augustan authority. Vitruvius promises to shape not only the emperor’s legacy with architecture, but also the notion of a Roman citizen through the figure of the ideal architect.
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Bartlett, roger. The Bentham Brothers and Russia: The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St Petersburg Panopticon. UCL Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082373.
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The jurist and philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, and his lesser-known brother, Samuel, equally talented but as a naval architect, engineer and inventor, had a long love affair with Russia. Jeremy hoped to assist Empress Catherine II with her legislative projects. Samuel went to St Petersburg to seek his fortune in 1780 and came back with the rank of Brigadier-General and the idea, famously publicised by Jeremy, of the Inspection-House or Panopticon. The Bentham Brothers and Russia chronicles the brothers’ later involvement with the Russian Empire, when Jeremy focused his legislative hopes on Catherine’s grandson Emperor Alexander I (ruled 1801-25) and Samuel found a unique opportunity in 1806 to build a Panopticon in St Petersburg – the only panoptical building ever built by the Benthams themselves. Setting the Benthams’ projects within an in-depth portrayal of the Russian context, Roger Bartlett illuminates an important facet of their later careers and offers insight into their world view and way of thought. He also contributes towards the history of legal codification in Russia, which reached a significant peak in 1830, and towards the demythologising of the Panopticon, made notorious by Michel Foucault: the St Petersburg building, still relatively unknown, is described here in detail on the basis of archival sources. The Benthams’ interactions with Russia under Alexander I constituted a remarkable episode in Anglo-Russian relations; this book fills a significant gap in their history.
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Hall, Catherine. Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain. Yale University Press, 2012.
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Song, Weijie. The Aesthetic versus the Political. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190200671.003.0004.
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This chapter addresses how Lin Huiyin, a female poet and architect, carries out modernist, impressionist, and urbanist mappings of Beijing’s everyday objects, imperial relics, and socialist sites from the post-Warlord Era to the high Cold War years. In her literary writings of the 1930s and her failed project of urban planning of the socialist capital in the 1950s (against Maoist and Stalinist propaganda), Lin deliberately juxtaposes the pastoral and the counterpastoral, the threatening and disturbing images of modern industrial civilization and the lyrical and aesthetic items in everyday life. Imperial palaces and other grand buildings still dominate the urban landscape of Beijing. However, in Lin’s poetics and politics of daily objects, the sensuous, superfluous, and aestheticized things constitute the cultural texture and material basis of the city, which outlive historical transformations and political turbulence and protect Beijing from the “gust and dust” of modern times.
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Imperial architects: Being an account of proposals in the direction of a closer imperial union, made previous to the opening of the first Colonial Conference of 1887. Toronto: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Belser, Julia Watts. Rabbinic Tales of Destruction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190600471.001.0001.
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Rabbinic Tales of Destruction examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem from the perspective of the wounded body and the scarred land. Amidst stories saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, forced prostitution, disability, and bodily risk, the book argues that rabbinic narrative wrestles with the brutal body costs of Roman imperial domination. It brings disability studies, feminist theory, and new materialist ecological thought to accounts of rabbinic catastrophe, revealing how rabbinic discourses of gender, sexuality, and the body are shaped in the shadow of empire. Focusing on the Babylonian Talmud’s longest account of the destruction of the Second Temple, the book reveals the distinctive sex and gender politics of Bavli Gittin. While Palestinian tales frequently castigate the “wayward woman” for sexual transgressions that imperil the nation, Bavli Gittin’s stories resist portraying women’s sexuality as a cause of catastrophe. Rather than castigate women’s beauty as the cause of sexual sin, Bavli Gittin’s tales express a strikingly egalitarian discourse that laments the vulnerability of both male and female bodies before the conqueror. Bavli Gittin’s body politics align with a significant theological reorientation. Bavli Gittin does not explain catastrophe as divine chastisement. Instead of imagining God as the architect of Jewish suffering, it evokes God’s empathy with the subjugated Jewish body and forges a sharp critique of empire. Its critical discourse aims to pierce the power politics of Roman conquest, to protest the brutality of imperial dominance, and to make plain the scar that Roman violence leaves upon Jewish flesh.
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Song, Weijie. Mapping Modern Beijing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190200671.001.0001.
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Mapping Modern Beijing investigates five methods of representing Beijing- a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory—by authors traveling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities. The metamorphosis of Beijing’s everyday spaces and the structural transformation of private and public emotions unfold Manchu writer Lao She’s Beijing complex about a warped native city. Zhang Henshui’s popular snapshots of fleeting shocks and everlasting sorrows illustrate his affective mapping of urban transition and human manners in Republican Beijing. Female poet and architect Lin Huiyin captures an aesthetic and picturesque city vis-à-vis the political and ideological urban planning. The imagined imperial capital constructed in bilingual, transcultural, and comparative works by Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, and Victor Segalen highlights the pleasures and pitfalls of collecting local knowledge and presenting Orientalist and Cosmopolitan visions. In the shadow of World Wars and Cold War, a multilayered displaced Beijing appears in the Sinophone postmemory by diasporic Beijing natives Liang Shiqiu, Taiwan sojourners Zhong Lihe and Lin Haiyin, and émigré martial-arts novelist Jin Yong in Hong Kong. Weijie Song situates Beijing in a larger context of modern Chinese-language urban imaginations, and charts the emotional topography of the city against the backdrop of the downfall of the Manchu Empire, the rise of modern nation-state, the 1949 great divide, and the formation of Cold War and globalizing world. Drawing from literary canons to exotic narratives, from modernist poetry to chivalric fantasy, from popular culture to urban planning, this book explores the complex nexus of urban spaces, archives of emotions, and literary topography of Beijing in its long journey from imperial capital to Republican city and to socialist metropolis.
Book chapters on the topic "Imperial architect"
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"3 For Imperial Rome." In Mussolini, Architect, 204–11. University of Toronto Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442630994-047.
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"6 For Imperial Milan." In Mussolini, Architect, 221–23. University of Toronto Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442630994-050.
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"5 Hitler’s Plan for Imperial Berlin." In Mussolini, Architect, 216–21. University of Toronto Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442630994-049.
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"8 The North-South Imperial Axis." In Mussolini, Architect, 78–82. University of Toronto Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442630994-018.
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Furuhata, Yuriko. "Tange Lab and Biopolitics." In Beyond Imperial Aesthetics, 219–42. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455874.003.0011.
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This chapter theorizes an afterlife of Imperial Japan's biological metaphors of lifeworld and circulation in the work of Japanese architect Tange Kenzō and his associates who came to form the internationally renowned movement of Metabolism in the early 1960s. Transposing these imperial metaphors onto postwar Japan's national body politic, Tange and other Metabolist architects frequently used the biological metaphors of blood circulation and the central nervous system to articulate their vision of urban planning. Focusing on the impact of electronic communication technologies on architecture, this chapter will explore how the modern biopolitical idea of maintaining the organic life of the nation persisted into the postwar period, and how this perspective on biopolitics in turn compels us to rethink certain assumptions we make about electronic media and information technologies.
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"Jacopo Strada as an Imperial Architect: Background." In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.), 251–338. BRILL, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004359499_007.
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"The Position of Imperial Architect and the Balyan Family." In The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople. I.B.Tauris, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755693351.ch-002.
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Thomas, Edmund. "Creating Form: Architects in the Antonine Age." In Monumentality and the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199288632.003.0014.
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At Miletus we saw a distinction between the workmen contracted to construct the arcades and the architect who designed them. Ancient building projects were usually dominated by architects, who directed a large number of subordinate workmen. Whereas the workmen sometimes challenged an instruction, the architect at the top identified more with the project, and his opportunity for social prestige was greater. Since Aristotle, architects were considered to be both ‘wiser’ and ‘more valued’ than manual workers, because they knew the ‘causes’ of a building project. At Patara it was not only the Velii Proculi as patrons who gained glory from new architectural forms. In the odeion stood a statue to the architect Dionysius of Sardis. He is described as ‘skilled in all works of Athena’, which recalls the mention of this goddess at Miletus; but the ‘future fame’ that his statue commemorated was for a work of architecture and engineering of which any Roman would have been proud: the great roof over the odeion itself. Another who made a professional reputation for himself beyond his home city was Marcus Aurelius Pericles of Mylasa, who was honoured at Rome for his success in architecture, described as ‘the greatest art of countless people’. To understand the monumentality of Roman architecture, then, we need to consider the views of architects. One should bear in mind, however, that the architectural profession in antiquity was very diverse. Indeed, there was no idea of a ‘profession’ at all in the modern sense of recognized qualifications and a relatively stable corporate identity. It is difficult to evaluate the social position of those architects whose names are recorded across the Roman Empire, as the mainly epigraphic evidence for their existence is both diffuse and varied, coming from areas as heterogeneous in social structure as imperial Rome, cities in Asia Minor, villages in late Roman Syria, and military settlements on the north-western frontier. In Greece and Asia Minor an individual called an architektōn might have been either a civic magistrate, with no professional activity in the design process, though sometimes involved with public building; a religious official, with responsibility for the buildings of a sanctuary; or a practising architect, either employed by a city or working independently.
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ZANKER, PAUL. "Domitian’s Palace on the Palatine and the Imperial Image." In Representations of Empire. British Academy, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262764.003.0006.
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A Roman emperor was defined not simply by his own actions, but also by the manner in which he presented himself, the way he appeared in public, and the personal style he adopted in his interaction with the Senate and the people. A major element of that style lay in the manner of his domestic life and, closely related to this, how he handled the rituals associated with the imperial residence, such as the salutation and, above all, the invitations to an imperial convivium. Should the power of the emperor be put on display or concealed? In what kinds of settings should he carry out his duties? How could he simultaneously show off his status and power while playing the princeps in the manner of Augustus? It was evident from the very start that here was a fundamental flaw in the artful construction of Augustus. This is most evident in the honorific statues and other monuments associated with the worship of the emperor, in which Augustus and his Julio-Claudian successors, during their lifetimes, were represented both as civic officials in the toga and as nude figures with bodies modelled on gods and heroes. This chapter tries to understand better the new residence that Domitian built on the Palatine, at vast expense, to the plans of the architect Rabirius (according to Martial 7. 56), as a monument of imperial projection.
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Rothschild, N. Harry. "Flouting, Flashing, and Favoritism." In Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824867812.003.0009.
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In 695, in the Zhou court of female emperor Wu Zhao 武曌, Xue Huaiyi 薛懷義, improbably risen from male favorite of humble origins to become a Buddhist abbot, an influential ideologue, a veteran general of many expeditions, a visionary architect of grand imperial ritual constructions, lay on a bench and bared his midriff (tanfu坦腹). The eccentric Huaiyi’s wanton disregard for protocol, for the dignity and solemnity of venue, scandalized and profoundly outraged the Confucian establishment, creating a furor in court. To better couch Xue Huaiyi’s bared midriff in the complex historical and ideological context of the times, the chapter examines different aspects of meaning underlying the eccentric and unorthodox monk’s irreverent gesture—Buddhist, Confucian, folk/popular, etymological.
Conference papers on the topic "Imperial architect"
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Ceastina, Ala. "The outstanding architect Alexander Iosifovich Bernardazzi (1831–1907)." In Patrimoniul cultural: cercetare, valorificare, promovare. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/9789975351379.20.
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This year marks the 190th birthday of the famous Swiss architect of Italian origin A.I. Bernardazzi, who is also known for creating various historic buildings in Ukraine, Bessarabia and Poland. Archival documents were an evidence of the beginning of architectural career of Bernardazzi, when the Bessarabian Road and Construction Commission appointed him as the technician for urban planning of Akkerman and Bendery in 1853 and also for building some bridges and causeways in those districts. He took part in the organization of the third market in the Forest Square in Kishinev in September of 1855. This was the first mission of his creativity in Kishinev. Alexander Bernardazzi executed his duty as municipal architect from 1856 to 1878 having taken the place of another architect Luca Zaushkevich. All his subsequent monumental buildings became the best examples of European architecture by their style, shape, and quality. . In Bessarabia, he participated in the design and construction of many buildings such as the temporal theatre, the Lutheran school, the railway station, the Greek Church, the Manuk-Bei’s palace, etc. As for Kishinev, the architect Bernardazzi performed the beautification of paving many streets, the construction of urban water supply and the cast-iron railing in the city park. Also, he participated in many architects’ meetings where he submitted interesting reports referring to the theater, some windows, fire safety of buildings and so on. After his arrival to Odessa in 1878, Alexander Bernardazzi continued to participate in designing social and civil buildings in Bessarabia. For his enormous creative contribution to urban development, he was appreciated with the title of honorable citizen of Kishinev and appointed member of the Bessarabian department of the Imperial Russian Technical Society.
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Dainese, Elisa. "Le Corbusier’s Proposal for the Capital of Ethiopia: Fascism and Coercive Design of Imperial Identities." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.838.
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Abstract: In 1936, immediately after the Italian conquest of the Ethiopian territories, the Fascist government initiated a competition to prepare the plan of Addis Ababa. Shortly, the new capital of the Italian empire in East Africa became the center of the Fascist debate on colonial planning and the core of the architectural discussion on the design for the control of African people. Taking into consideration the proposal for Addis Ababa designed by Le Corbusier, this paper reveals his perception of Europe’s role of supremacy in the colonial history of the 1930s. Le Corbusier admired the achievements of European colonialism in North Africa, especially the work of Prost and Lyautey, and appreciated the results of French domination in the continent. As architect and planner, he shared the Eurocentric assumption that considered overseas colonies as natural extension of European countries, and believed that the separation of indigenous and European quarters led to a more efficient control of the colonial city. In Addis Ababa he worked within the limit of the Italian colonial framework and, in the urgencies of the construction of the Fascist colonial empire, he participated in the coercive construction of imperial identities. Keywords: Le Corbusier; Addis Ababa; colonial city; Fascist architecture; racial separation; Eurocentrism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.838
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Šokinjov, Stefan. "POJAM PREDUZEĆA U PRAVU KONKURENCIJE EVROPSKE UNIJE." In XVIII Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/xviiimajsko.099s.
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The EU Competition Law refers to the activities of undertakings. The term undertaking is not defined by TFEU although it uses that term. That is why the notion of undertaking is defined in the CJEU case law. According to the Höfner judgment (C-41/90, parа 21) the concept of undertaking encompasses every entity engaged in an economic activity, regardless of the legal status of the entity and the way in which it is financed. Defining approach is functional and answer if some entity is undertaking depends on assessment if its activity can be qualified as economic. Pursuant to Commission v. Italy judgment (C-118/85), economic activity is any activity consisting in offering goods or/and services on a given market. Coverage of such definition is extremely broad and notion of undertaking except companies and entrepreneurs encompasses opera singers, inventors, some supplementary insurance funds, sporting bodies, customs agents, employment office, professional sportsmen, lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, architects, agricultural cooperatives and so on. In order to limit the coverage of undertaking notion in the CJEU case law are developed criterions by which some entities are excluded from undertaking status. These are: State’s imperium (exercising public authority), principle of solidarity and absence of autonomy in deciding over its own conduct on the market.
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Sánchez Vértiz Ruiz, René L. "Alteración del clima en el valle de México tras cinco siglos de deterioro ambiental." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7560.
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Este trabajo intenta mostrar algunas de las alteraciones climáticas que han sido causadas por el deterioro del ambiente en el Valle de México -la zona más poblada del altiplano central mexicano- cuyos efectos son perceptibles como afectaciones al confort humano: humedad ambiental, radiación solar, temperaturas y viento. Aunque no es posible contar con evidencias cuantitativas irrefutables, sí es posible contrastar las condiciones cualitativas imperantes en el siglo XVI contra las del siglo XXI.
En tiempos precolombinos, la vida cotidiana del habitante del Valle de México se desarrollaba casi siempre al aire libre, en contacto con el cielo abierto y el paisaje circundante. Pocas actividades tenían lugar en espacios bajo techo, los cuales sólo eran ocupados durante algunas cuantas horas al día. El diseño de espacios interiores no era una preocupación fundamental de los constructores, lo que contrasta con el esmero aplicado a la arquitectura de exteriores y a la relación con los elementos del paisaje.
La posterior etapa colonial fomentó la preferencia por una vida cotidiana desarrollada dentro de espacios confinados entre muros y cubiertas, siguiendo las costumbres europeas. Los ambientes al aire libre comenzaron a ser considerados como secundarios, de modo que el espacio abierto empezó a ser visto con cierta indiferencia, que paulatinamente fue en aumento; más tarde, se sentaron las bases para un proceso de deterioro ambiental que no ha cesado hasta hoy y que es particularmente notorio en la desecación de lagos y en la tala masiva de bosques. El fenómeno de la degradación del ambiente ha acelerado a la par del crecimiento desmesurado y descontrolado de las áreas urbanas del valle de México, especialmente durante las últimas décadas del siglo XX. En la zona hoy impera un círculo vicioso: la citada degradación de los ámbitos al aire libre incita a preferir ámbitos cada vez más cerrados y aislados del ambiente exterior, lo que a su vez incrementa la pérdida de calidad de los espacios a cielo
abierto.
Testimonios escritos hace siglos, antiguos nombres de poblaciones, topónimos y otras evidencias de siglos pasados describen de modo cualitativo e indirecto ciertas condiciones ambientales hoy desaparecidas. Destacan los indicios relativos a humedad ambiental, radiación solar y temperaturas que se han modificado negativamente tras un proceso de medio milenio de extinción de bosques y zonas lacustres.
Es posible afirmar que varias condiciones ambientales predominantes en el siglo XVI, hoy desaparecidas, facilitaban la vida al aire libre. The aim of this work is to describe some climate alterations caused by environmental deterioration on the surrounding valley of Mexico City (the most populated zone of mexican central highlands), whose effects are noticeable by human comfort perception, such as humidity, solar radiation, and temperature. We have no quantitative evidences, but it’s possible to compare qualitative climate conditions from 16th to 21th centuries.
In pre columbian times, almost all daily life at Mexico central valley was developed on outdoor spaces. Just a few activities took place inside indoor spaces. Precolumbian architecture is not renowned because its interior design, but by its landscape architecture.
Colonial times imposed a new way to conceive quotidian life. European influences preferred indoor spaces; therefore, daily activities and open spaces started losing contact and landscape became a secondary item. Later, lake dessication and massive wood destruction processes started, accelerating along the centuries and reaching its highest point at the end of the 20th century, when metropolitan urban growing of Mexico City was out of control. Now, a vicious circle is the sovereign ruler of the valley: environmental deterioration and unpleasant, low quality outdoors instigate architects and builders to produce more isolated, indoor spaces, with more negative effects on environmental quality.
Historic testimonies, ancient names of places and other evidences can describe lost environmental qualities as humidity, solar radiation and temperature, all of them substantially modified during the past five centuries.
It’s possible to asseverate that in the 16th century some environmental features -now extinguished produced good conditions for outdoor daily life.