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Book SynopsisStephen Kite is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include
Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture (2012),
Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (2009), and
An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin).
Trade ReviewA meticulously researched, sensitive and intellectually stimulating enquiry into architecture’s darker side. * The Burlington Magazine *
Shadow-Makers is a thoroughly enjoyable read, a dense, evocative, and insightful reminder of qualities essential to the physical and intellectual enjoyment of architecture. -- Elizabeth Musgrave * Architectural Theory Review *
Providing an important exploration on how shadows have been used for a variety of purposes (religious, psychological, spatial), Kite looks at architecture from the Baroque, through 19th-century Gothic revival, to early and late modernity … This book abounds with black-and-white illustrations supporting and highlighting the nuances of Kite's ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *
Kite gathers an interesting ensemble of architects and architectonic works ... [he] creates a rich picture of the subject, almost like a mosaic. * Arkkitehti *
Kite’s is a searching mind – genuinely curious, fascinated and enthusiastic; attuned to the allegorical values of tectonics ... [Shadow-Makers is] a network of ideas drawn from politics, aesthetics, philosophy and cultural history, but always pivoting on the central narrative of architectonics wrought from darkness, shadow and shade. * Fabrications *
Table of Contents1. Shadow Beginnings 2. Primordial Shadows 3. ‘The art of Shaddowes’: the Baroque of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh 4. Shadows of the Sublime 5. Gothick ‘Gloomth’ 6. John Ruskin and Shadows of Power 7. Shadow Carpets 8. Shadows of the Unconscious: the Venice of Adrian Stokes and Aldo Rossi 9. Louis Kahn and the ‘Treasury of Shadows’ 10. Shadow Futures Bibliography Index
