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A Heretical History of Architecture
Series: - Studies in Religion and the Arts, Volume: 23
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A Heretical History of Architecture challenges the conventional understanding of significant developments in Western architecture as a series of alignments among dominant ideologies and artistic programs, arguing instead that the most consequential changes in the evolution of artistic and design practices across Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries were motivated by tensions between local religious or cultural traditions and centralized power.
This groundbreaking study richly demonstrates the processes through which heterodox beliefs that persisted within numerous diverse communities resulted in design experimentation so syncretic that it has heretofore eluded scholars employing conventional Euro-centric taxonomies of architectural styles.
This groundbreaking study richly demonstrates the processes through which heterodox beliefs that persisted within numerous diverse communities resulted in design experimentation so syncretic that it has heretofore eluded scholars employing conventional Euro-centric taxonomies of architectural styles.
Andrzej Piotrowski, an architect educated in Poland, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. In addition to numerous articles, he has published
Architecture of Thought (2011, translated to Polish as
Architektura Myślenia, 2022), co-edited
The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture (2019), and
The Discipline of Architecture (2001).
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Beliefs and Imagery of Resilient Ancient Worldviews
1 Old Religions and Ancient Symbolic Thought
2 The Representational Function of Religious Sites
3 The Symbolism of Vitality and its Persistence in the Christian West
2 Byzantine Iconoclasm and Architecture
1 Early Christian Architecture and Pagan Traditions
2 Byzantine Iconoclasm, Dualism, and the Paulician Heresy
3 Formless Matter and Post-Iconoclastic Armenian Renaissance
3 The Bogomils, the Cathars, and Christian Architecture
1 The Bogomils and Macedonian Architecture
2 Catholic Architecture by the Adriatic Sea
3 From the Cathars to French Gothic
4 The Architectural Renaissance of Pagan Representations
1 The Persistence of Scytho-Indian Traditions
2 Quattrocento and the Greek-Byzantine Legacy
3 Pagan Beliefs and Design Practices During the Protestant Reformation
4 The Architecture of the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation
5 Architecture and the Early Modern Modality of Thought
1 Design Experimentation Dubiously Called Mannerism
2 Design Practices on the Cusp of the Modern Era
6 Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Beliefs and Imagery of Resilient Ancient Worldviews
1 Old Religions and Ancient Symbolic Thought
2 The Representational Function of Religious Sites
3 The Symbolism of Vitality and its Persistence in the Christian West
2 Byzantine Iconoclasm and Architecture
1 Early Christian Architecture and Pagan Traditions
2 Byzantine Iconoclasm, Dualism, and the Paulician Heresy
3 Formless Matter and Post-Iconoclastic Armenian Renaissance
3 The Bogomils, the Cathars, and Christian Architecture
1 The Bogomils and Macedonian Architecture
2 Catholic Architecture by the Adriatic Sea
3 From the Cathars to French Gothic
4 The Architectural Renaissance of Pagan Representations
1 The Persistence of Scytho-Indian Traditions
2 Quattrocento and the Greek-Byzantine Legacy
3 Pagan Beliefs and Design Practices During the Protestant Reformation
4 The Architecture of the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation
5 Architecture and the Early Modern Modality of Thought
1 Design Experimentation Dubiously Called Mannerism
2 Design Practices on the Cusp of the Modern Era
6 Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Arts and architecture historians, architects, religious and cultural studies scholars, and students interested in the periods or regions the book covers, as well as the global history. Keywords: History of the Arts, Design, Architectural Theory, Visual Studies, History of Religions, Heresy, Cultural History, Global History, Politics, Traditions, Epistemology, Philosophy, Christianity, Intellectual Dissention, Representation Theory.