#books #architecture #urbanism | Lithuanian architecture and urbanism : essays in history and aesthetics

Lithuanian architecture and urbanism : essays in history and aesthetics / Almantas Samalavičius.
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
xvi, 195 p. : il.
ISBN 9781527522282
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Historia / Arquitectura – Lituabia / Urbanismo - Lituania
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(474.5) LIT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1103706785

[.en] This volume brings together essays focused on Lithuania's architectural and urban legacy, as well as recent developments since 1990, when the country said a firm farewell to the era of dependence and the Soviet communist regime. Nevertheless, as the book argues, the legacy of the past still dominates due to an uncritical adoption of Modernist dogmas in architecture and urban design by architects and urban designers during the last two decades of Soviet colonization.It offers a critical overview of urban developments during the last three decades which were marked by the emergence of private capital, the market economy and the growth of the real estate sector. The rapid expansion of the building industry brought new challenges to architects and urban designers, and more often than not they fell prey to the new ideology of economism, commodification and commercialism. These developments are reflected in the urban tissue and aesthetics, as well as in the present shape of urban public spaces, in Lithuania's capital Vilnius and other large cities. The book will be useful to architectural and cultural historians, as well as to critics interested in current developments and historical trends in eastern Europe and Baltic urban and architectural developments.

#books #architecture | The architecture of the Christian Holy Land : reception from late antiquity through the Renaissance

The architecture of the Christian Holy Land : reception from late antiquity through the Renaissance / Kathryn Blair Moore.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] : 2017.
XVII, 420 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: pp. 363-411.
ISBN 9781107139084
Antigüedades cristianas.
Arquitectura religiosa -- Oriente Medio.
Civilización cristiana.
Iglesias -- Oriente Medio.
Simbolismo cristiano.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-726.5 ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1875173~S1*spi

In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.