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Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy (Icon Editions)
David Mayernik
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| #1150004 in eBooks | 2009-03-25 | 2009-03-25 | File type: PDF||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Original!|By Pierre Gauthier|The idealistic author argues that cities require a predetermined purpose, a self-image that will be transcribed in its development through time. Conversely, a city's architecture and layout embody its memory and reveal its true nature. To illustrate this, the author discusses at some length the pre-18th century development of Rome, Venice, Florenc||"A thoughtful, passionate, learned, and unexpected examination of cities past, present, and ideal, written with conviction and humor."|From the Author|I wrote this book to restore the poetic dimension to the discussion of
For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In this masterful blend of art and cultural history, architect David Mayernik reveals how the very different cities of Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza were all literally designed to be both models of the mind and im...
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