Shadow-makers : a cultural history of shadows in architecture /

"The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. 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 archite...

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Main Author: Kite, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Series:Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Shadow Beginnings; 2 Primordial Shadows; 3 'The art of Shaddowes'; 4 Shadows of the Sublime; 5 Gothic 'Gloomth'; 6 John Ruskin and Shadows of Power; 7 Shadow Carpets; 8 Shadows of the Unconscious; 9 Louis Kahn and the 'Treasury of Shadows'; 10 Shadow Futures; Bibliography; Index.