Main entry:

Goodwin, Godfrey.

Title & Author:

Sinan : Ottoman architecture and its values today / Godfrey Goodwin.

Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 1993.

Description:

132 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Elements of a life -- Before Sinan -- Patronage and sites -- The Royal architect -- Other buildings -- Civil buildings -- Students and disciples -- Other mosques -- The importance of light -- Light and the Selimiye Mosque (1572-5) -- The dome -- The minaret -- Problems of interior space -- Space and form -- The recognition of apsidal form -- The courtyard -- Measuring the void -- Decoration -- Tiles -- Mathematics and architecture -- No building is an island -- The dimensions of genius -- The common denominator of Ottoman architecture -- Counting the dead.

Summary:

Godfrey Goodwin focuses on the work of one of the greatest sixteenth-century architects, Sinan Abdulmennan, showing how he revolutionized inherited Ottoman building methods, a tradition based on structure by an awareness of the psychology of space. Until Sinan, Ottoman architecture had been a reading of parts. He broke down the distinct forms that had created a certain rigidity, thus freeing interior space and interior form simultaneously. Underlying his architectural concepts are the mathematical theories and practices of Classical Greece. Sinan shared these ideals of proportion and balance with builders in the WestƯ indeed; the author argues that the work of Sinan and that of Bramante and Palladio must be seen as part of the same intellectual revolution.

ISBN:

0863561721
9780863561726

Subject:

Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588 Criticism and interpretation.
Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588.
Sinan 1489-1588
Sinan, Mimar, (1489-1588)
Sinan.
Architecture, Ottoman Turkey.
Islamic architecture Turkey.
Architecture Turkey.
Architecture, Ottoman Turkey Greek influences.
Islamic architecture Turkey Greek influences.
Architecture Turquie.
Architecture.
Architecture, Ottoman.
Islamic architecture.
Architektur
Osmanische Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Architects Turkey 16th century.
Architecture Turquie Istanbul (Turquie) 16e siècle.
Architecture ottomane Turquie.
Architecture islamique Turquie.
Architecture ottomane Turquie Influence grecque.
Turkey.
Osmanisches Reich

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154528
Call No.: NA44.S615.9 G6 1993
Status: Available