Main entry:

Acocella, Alfonso, 1954-

Title & Author:

Stone architecture : ancient and modern construction skills / Alfonso Acocella ; translations, Alice Fisher, Patrick John Barr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Lucca : Lucense ; Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli, 2006.

Description:

623 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 35 cm

Notes:
Originally published as L'Architettura di Pietra (Florence : Alinea, ©2004).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 614-618) and indexes.
Linear Time, Circular Time -- The Beginnings -- First, the stones of Egypt -- The "stone staircase", a bridge to immortality -- "Other" stone apparitions at Saqqarah -- The invisible project -- Beyond Saqqarah, Giza -- Walls -- The construction of walls -- Megalithic Wall "Classical" polygonal masonry -- Polygonal "Lesbian" masonry -- Trapezoid polygonal masonry -- Opus quadratum -- Irregular opus quadratum -- Isodomic opus quadratum -- Pseudoisodomic opus quadratum -- "headres and stretchers" opus quadratum -- Emplecton walls -- Rusticated masonry -- Greek rustication -- Roman rustication -- Renaissance rustication -- Types of rustication -- Contemporary irregular walls -- Types of irregular walls -- Regular walls -- between oblivion and resuscitation -- Wall surfaces, space and light -- Squared-ashlar walls in Italy -- Columns -- The essence of columns -- The temple area : pteroma and naos -- The peristyle and its surrounds -- Stoas -- The architectural features of stoa -- Types of stoa -- The peristyle -- Royal Macedonian peristyles -- Mediterranean transplantation : the house on Monte lato -- The marbled peristyles of Delos -- Solitary rotundity : columns and the "other" modernity -- From the "modern Doric style" to the stylisation of columns -- Architraves -- Architraves and triliths -- Modern triliths -- Arches -- False arches -- The origins of the arch -- Greece : the supremacy of the stone arch -- Etruria : a necessary review of atrribution -- Rome and the arch as protagonist -- Types of arches -- Simple arches with continuous profiles -- Arches with discontinuous profiles -- Platbands -- Types of platband -- The modern -- day relevance of the arch -- Wall and Floor coverings -- Polychromatic roman opus sectile -- The use of marble in private spheres -- Opus sectile and painting -- The flight from colour -- Contemporary stone surfaces -- Technical aspects and design of cladding -- Stone roofs -- The origins of stone roofs -- Stone roofs in the Alps and Apennines -- Alpine roof types -- Contemporary lose -- Ligurian slate roofs -- Ligurian types of roof covering -- Stone roofs in the Mediterranean landscape -- Urban Paving -- Stone block paving -- Stone paving design -- Types of stone paving -- Stone block paving -- Paving with smolleri -- Cubical stone sets -- Stone block paving arrangements -- Cobblestone paving -- Modern cobblestone paving -- The material today -- Varieties and Admiratio -- The life of the material.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

8876246967 (hardcover)
9788876246968 (hardcover)

Subject:

Stone buildings Europe History.
Stone buildings Europe Design and construction.
Stone buildings History.
Constructions en pierre Histoire.
Constructions en pierre Europe Conception et construction.
Constructions en pierre Europe Histoire.
Stone buildings.
Stone buildings Design and construction.
Architektur
Stein
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Fedel, Franca
Fedel, Roberto

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249203
Call No.: BIB 178781
Status: Available