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Book SynopsisThe growth of princely states in early Renaissance Italy brought a thorough renewal to the old seats of power. One of the most conspicuous outcomes of this process was the building or rebuilding of new court palaces, erected as prestigious residences in accord with the new ‘classical’ principles of Renaissance architecture. The novelties, however, went far beyond architectural forms: they involved the reorganisation of courtly interiors and their functions, new uses for the buildings, and the relationship between the palaces and their surroundings. The whole urban setting was affected by these processes, and therefore the social, residential and political customs of its inhabitants. This is the focus of A Renaissance Architecture of Power, which aims to analyse from a comparative perspective the evolution of Italian court palaces in the Renaissance in their entirety. Contributors are Silvia Beltramo, Flavia Cantatore, Bianca de Divitiis, Emanuela Ferretti, Marco Folin, Giulio Girondi, Andrea Longhi, Marco Rosario Nobile, Aurora Scotti, Elena Svalduz, and Stefano Zaggia.Table of ContentsContents Foreword vii List of Figures x PART 1 Comparative Issues 1 Princes, Towns, Palaces: A Renaissance “Architecture of Power” 3 Marco Folin 2 Medieval Vestiges in the Princely Architecture of the 15th Century 28 Silvia Beltramo 3 The Princely Palace in 15th-Century Italian Architectural Theory 53 Flavia Cantatore 4 Palaces and Palatine Chapels in 15th-Century Italian Dukedoms: Ideas and Experiences 82 Andrea Longhi PART 2 Case Studies 5 “Combining the Old and the New”: The Princely Residences of the Marquises of Saluzzo in the 15th Century 107 Silvia Beltramo 6 The Sforza Castle of Milan (1450–1499) 134 Aurora Scotti 7 Patrician Residences and the Palaces of the Marquis of Mantua (1459–1524) 163 Giulio Girondi 8 The Renewal of Ferrara’s Court Palace under Ercole i d’Este (1471–1505) 187 Marco Folin 9 Architecture of Power: Imola during the Signoria of Girolamo Riario (1473–1488) 216 Stefano Zaggia 10 “Small Mice, Large Palaces”: From Urbino to Carpi 235 Elena Svalduz 11 The Medici Palace, Cosimo the Elder, and Michelozzo: A Historiographical Survey 263 Emanuela Ferretti 12 The Palace of Nicholas v: Continuity and Innovation in the Vatican Palaces 290 Flavia Cantatore 13 Alfonso i of Naples and the Art of Building: Castel Nuovo in a European Context 320 Bianca de Divitiis 14 The Residences of the Kings of Sicily, from Martin of Aragon to Ferdinand the Catholic 354 Marco Rosario Nobile Bibliography 379 Index of Manuscripts 440 Index of Names 442 Index of Places 461

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Book SynopsisIn Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.Trade Review[...] 'this study furthermore emphasizes that architecture, African no less than any other, must be contextualized in order to better comprehend the history of forms and architectural decisions'. Syprien Christian Zogo, Laval University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 4, February 2018, pp. 121-122Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Transcription, Translation, and Transliteration Introduction Chapter One: Architectural Form Chapter Two: Political Symbolism Chapter Three: Spatial Orientation Chapter Four: Ritual Movement Chapter Five: Secrecy Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran – Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945–1979. The book, while arguing about the institutionalism of modernity in the form of modern middle-class housing in Tehran, shows how vernacular archetypes found their way into the construction of new neighborhoods. The trajectory of ideal modernism towards popular modernism, the introduction of modern taste to traditional society through architects, while tracing the path of transnational models in local projects, are all subjects extensively expounded by Rana Habibi through engaging graphical analyses and appealing theoretical interpretations involving five modern Tehran neighborhoods.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Persian Transcription Introduction  1 Middle-Class Housing Development in Tehran and the Question of Non-Western Modernity  2 Iran’s Position Amidst Non-Western Architectural Modernism  3 Modernism as Institutionalism  4 From Ideal Modernism to Popular Modernism  5 Modernism as a Taste  6 Modernism as a Transnational Model  7 Tehran Urban Modernization: Articulation of the Walled Gardens and Urban Planning Laws  8 Modern Middle-Class Quarters: A Reproduction of Archetype 1 The Unveiled House – The Institutionalization of Modern Middle-Class Neighborhoods in 1940s Tehran: Chahārsad Dastgāh, 1946  1 Growth of the Middle Class, the Question of Modern Collective Housing, and the Birth of Tehran’s First Modern Neighborhood  2 Modern District: The Courtyard House New Urban Block Configuration – Chahārsad Dastgāh  3 A Modern House by Law: Expansion of Modernity  4 Conclusion 2 Architects and Architecture without Architects: Nārmak, 1952  1 Introduction  2 Reformers  3 A Modernist Vision for a Middle-Class Neighborhood – Nārmak  4 A Yard: Contextualization of the Modern  5 Builders: Negotiating the Modern  6 Conclusion 3 Modern Taste – Iranian Domestic Cultural Transformation and the Excellence of the Car-Urban Landscape: Kuy-e Farah, 1961 and Kuy-e Chahārom-e Ābān, 1969  1 Introduction  2 The Modern Iranian House as Embodiment of Global Taste  3 A Car-Garden Neighborhood: Transformation of an Iranian Courtyard House: The Case of Kuy-e Farah, 1961  4 The Automobile Society and the Appearance of the Apartment Building: The Case of Kuy-e Chahārom-e Ābān, 1969  5 Conclusion 4 A Transnational Model – Internationalist Discourses and Practices in Tehran: The Case of Ekbātān, 1976  1 From Oil Exporting Economy to the Internationalization of Tehran  2 Iranian Internationalism: In Search of Methodology  3 Iranian Internationalism in Practice: Modernist Architectural Experiments  4 Ekbātān: A Transnational Architectural Model  5 Neglecting Internationalism and Continuations of Modernism in Practice Coda  1 International Modernism and the Reproduction of Archetype  2 Row Courtyard House Model + Grid  3 Linear Courtyard House Model + Grid  4 Super Courtyard House Model + Grid  5 Tehran: Speculative and Fragmented Middle-Class Urban Landscape  6 Epilogue: Chahārbāgh as the Main Structure of the New Center of Tehran Timeline Bibliography Index

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