Festival Architecture (The Classical Tradition in Architecture)

341 Pages·2007·10.5 MB·English

by  C. Macy

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5222 This book focuses on the ephemeral architecture built for festivals, investigating
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7 tectural and urban theory. Festival architecture, throughout the ages, has
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1 of specific festivals are set in relation to contemporary ideas and theories in
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3 to world expositions, festival architecture brought vivid color and sensory
4 delight to the cities of the past. The wealth of illustrations in this book opens
5 a window on to the enduring architectural meaning and importance of festivals
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7 With contributions by architectural historians specializing in this area, Festival
8 Architecturewill appeal to all students and researchers interested in the traditions
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2 Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy have been involved in festival
3 architecture since 1987, designing, lecturing and writing about it. Their book
4 Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape(Routledge 2003)
5 won the 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize from the Society of Architectural
6 Historians. They teach design and architectural history at Dalhousie University
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The Classical Tradition in Architecture
Series Editor: Caroline van Eck
Leiden University, Netherlands
Classical architecture not only provided a repertoire of forms and building
types capable of endless transformation; it was also a cultural actor and pro-
vided cultural capital, and was used to create political and religious identities.
This series provides a forum for its interdisciplinary study, from antiquity to
the present day. It aims to publish first-class and groundbreaking scholarship
that re-examines, reinterprets or revalues the classical tradition in the widest
sense. The series will deal with classicism as a cultural phenomenon, a formal
language of design, but also with its role in establishing the agenda, method
and grammar of inquiry in Western history of art and architecture and recent
reconsiderations of these roles.
Power & Virtue
Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730
Li Shiqiao
Landscapes of Taste
The Art of Humphry Repton’s Red Books
André Rogger
The Picturesque
Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
John Macarthur
The Florentine Villa
Architecture History Society
Grazia Gobbi Sica
Architecture, Print Culture and the
Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century France
Richard Wittman
Festival Architecture
Edited by Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy
The City Rehearsed
The Architectural Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries
Christopher Heuer
Architecture, the City, and the Public
in Eighteenth Century France
a Reader
Edited by Richard Wittman
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First published 2008
By Routledge
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© 2008 Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy, selection and
editorial matter; individual chapters, the contributors
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Festival architecture/edited by Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy.
p. cm.—(The classical tradition in architecture series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Festival architecture—Europe. 2. Architecture and society—
Europe. 3. Festivals—Social aspects—Europe. I. Bonnemaison,
Sarah. II. Macy, Christine.
NA8452.F47 2008
725′.9—dc22 2007020346
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1 Introduction 1
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2 RITUAL AND ARCHITECTURE IN ANTIQUITY
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2 The festive experience: Roman processions in the urban
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RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE SPECTACLE AS
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3 Festival bridal entries in Renaissance Ferrara 43
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DIANE YVONNE GHIRARDO
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4 Festivals of state: the scenography of power in late
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Renaissance and Baroque Venice 74
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6 MARGHERITA AZZI VISENTINI
Translated by Giovanna Fogli
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5 Statecraft or stagecraft? English paper architecture in the
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1 CAROLINE VAN ECK
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FESTIVALS AND URBAN
BEAUTIFICATION
7 The speculative challenges of festival architecture in
eighteenth-century France 155
ERIC MONIN
Translated by Nick Hargreaves and Christine Macy
WORLD EXPOSITIONS AND THE IDEA OF MODERNITY
8 Marking time and space in the city: Kromhout’s
decorations for the investiture of Wilhelmina in
Amsterdam 181
NANCY STIEBER
9 Sound, light, and the mystique of space: Paris 1937 215
ROBERT WEDDLE
FESTIVALS OF RESISTANCE
10 Festival urbanism: carnival as an expression of civil
society in nineteenth-century Basel 238
CHRISTINE MACY
11 Taking back the street, Paris 1968–78 275
SARAH BONNEMAISON
Index 309
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4 Tom Beresford: 2.7–2.8
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Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles: Plates 7a–7b
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Fasnachts-Comité, Basel: 10.4, 10.7–10.8, 10.10, 10.14, Plates 10a–10c
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