Shadow-Makers Kite Stephen Cardiff University UK
Shadow-Makers Kite Stephen Cardiff University UK The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. It weaves together a rich narrative - combining close readings of significant buildings…
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Shadow-Makers Kite Stephen Cardiff University UK
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. It weaves together a rich narrative - combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history - to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture.
It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context - tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the
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