{"product_id":"shadowmakers-9781472588098","title":"ShadowMakers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Kite\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include\u003ci\u003e Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture \u003c\/i\u003e(2012),\u003ci\u003e Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and \u003ci\u003eAn Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA meticulously researched, sensitive and intellectually stimulating enquiry into architecture’s darker side. * The Burlington Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eShadow-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 *\u003cbr\u003eProviding 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 *\u003cbr\u003eKite gathers an interesting ensemble of architects and architectonic works ... [he] creates a rich picture of the subject, almost like a mosaic. * Arkkitehti *\u003cbr\u003eKite’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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408753205591,"sku":"9781472588098","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472588098.jpg?v=1730504076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shadowmakers-9781472588098","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}