Timeless Cities by Dsvid Mayernik
An illuminating tour through five Italian cities famous for brilliant architecture that captures the ideas of a culture and a time in history. For Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities , architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today. Whether travelling on holiday or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Italian mind and its great cities a little closer.
David Mayernik is a practicing artist and architect, and an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813365923 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813365929 |
| Title | Timeless Cities |
| Author | Dsvid Mayernik |
| Series | Icon Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 2003-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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