Ćurčić, Slobodan.

Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent / Slobodan Ćurčić.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.

xii, 913 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm

This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends various established conventions in scholarship to present the architectural heritage in the Balkans in a manner that is accessible and comprehensible. Slobodan Curcic challenges notions derived from ̀modern' national historiographies that view architectural heritage within the confines of modern political boundaries as ǹational' heritage with privileged ǹational' status and relevance, that frame historical ̀periods' by relying on western art-historical conventions and that perceive historical events and developments as major determinants of cultural history.
Throughout the book architecture is viewed as a function of distinctive needs (social, political, religious), distinctive means (economic, technical know-how, material availability) and distinctive goals (aesthetic, propagandistic, protective). As a result, the book covers the full range of architectural enterprises, from simple residential buildings, to public monumental structures; from fortifications, to utilitarian buildings (cisterns, bridges, etc). The urban context of architecture is emphasized, while its role in rural settings is used as a gauge of other distinctive phenomena.
Illustrated with over nine hundred photographs and drawings, most of them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown body of material in a distinctive and unprecedented manner. --Book Jacket.

9780300115703 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300115709 (cl ; alk. paper)

Architecture Balkan Peninsula.
Architecture.
Balkan Peninsula.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 268009
Cote: BIB 199917
Statut: Disponible