1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 12
... spatial vision ; thickening the walls and replacing surface chromatics with rough , natural material meant over- turning the spatial concept and its decorative attributes ; builders left the centrifugal dynamism of the Byzantine model ...
... spatial vision ; thickening the walls and replacing surface chromatics with rough , natural material meant over- turning the spatial concept and its decorative attributes ; builders left the centrifugal dynamism of the Byzantine model ...
Page 50
... spatial distribution of the cathedral's interior is unusual in terms of the area where the transept meets the nave . There is no crossing and reciprocal spatial confluence ; instead , a clear separation is created by the continuity of ...
... spatial distribution of the cathedral's interior is unusual in terms of the area where the transept meets the nave . There is no crossing and reciprocal spatial confluence ; instead , a clear separation is created by the continuity of ...
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... spatial cells derived from Guarini . Around 1700 , they were responsible for the last great flowering of baroque ecclesiastical architecture . Of particular importance were the churches of St Nicholas in the Little Quarter ( Mala Strana ) ...
... spatial cells derived from Guarini . Around 1700 , they were responsible for the last great flowering of baroque ecclesiastical architecture . Of particular importance were the churches of St Nicholas in the Little Quarter ( Mala Strana ) ...
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