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The architectural facade addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying, or dissembling, interior arrangements. In this book, Charles Burroughs tracks the emergence of the facade in late medieval Florence and then follows the sharply diverging reactions of Renaissance architects to new demands and possibilities for representation in both residential and governmental contexts. Understanding the facade as an assemblage of elements of diverse character and origin, Burroughs explores the wide range of formal solutions available to architects and patrons. In the absence of explicit reflection on the facade in Renaissance architectural discourse, Burroughs notes the theoretical implications of certain celebrated designs, implying mediation on the nature of architecture itself and the society it serves and represents, as well as on the relationship between nature and culture.

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture Residential buildings, domestic buildings

• Full title: Italian Renaissance Palace Facade
• Subtitle: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense
• Author: Burroughs, Charles (State University of New York, Binghamton)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 310
• EAN: 9780521624381
• ISBN: 052162438X
• ID: 02037942
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 802 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 175 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. June 2002

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