Title & Author:

Festival architecture / edited by Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, ©2008.

Description:

xiii, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

The classical tradition in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The festive experience : Roman processions in the urban context / Diane Favro -- Festival bridal entries in Renaissance Ferrara / Diane Yvonne Ghirardo -- Festivals of state : the scenography of power in late Renaissance and Baroque Venice / Margherita Azzi Visentini ; translated by Giovanna Fogli -- Statecraft or stagecraft? : English paper architecture in the seventeenth century / Caroline van Eck -- Framing history : the Jubilee of 1625, the dedication of new Saint Peter's, and the Baldacchino / Maarten Delbeke -- The speculative challenges of festival architecture in eighteenth-century France / Eric Monin ; translated by Nick Hargreaves and Christine Macy -- Marking time and space in the city : Kromhout's decorations for the investiture of Wilhelmina in Amsterdam / Nancy Stieber -- Sound, light, and the mystique of space : Paris, 1937 / Robert Weddle -- Festival urbanism : carnival as an expression of civil society in nineteenth-century Basel / Christine Macy -- Taking back the street, Paris 1968-78 / Sarah Bonnemaison.

Summary:

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780415701280 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415701287 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415701297 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415701295 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203799505 (ebk.)
020379950X (ebk.)

Subject:

Festival architecture Europe.
Architecture and society Europe.
Festivals Social aspects Europe.
Architecture de fête Europe.
Architecture et société Europe.
21.62 history of architecture.
76.61 public entertainment.
Arte efímero Europa Historia
Arquitectura y sociedad Europa Historia
Architecture and society.
Festival architecture.
Festivals Social aspects.
Bouwkunst.
Festivals.
Sociale aspecten.
Europe.
Europa (geografie)

Form/genre:

History (form)

Added entries:

Bonnemaison, Sarah.
Macy, Christine.
Classical tradition in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256403
Call No.: BIB 186768
Status: Available