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03489aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 128A2358688611E8A317244297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180605010123 008 170517t20172017be abe b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 2503570232 020 $a 9782503570235 035 $a (OCoLC)987374383 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d WLU $d JPG $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a NA2500 P347x 2017 245 00 $a Palimpsests : $b buildings, sites, time / $c edited by Nadja Aksamija, Clark Maines, Phillip Wagoner. 264 1 $a Turnhout : $b Brepols, $c [2017] 300 $a 247 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; $c 28 cm. 490 1 $a Architectural crossroads : studies in the history of architecture ; $v vol. 4 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a I. Building transformations -- II. Restoration and rewriting -- III. Buildings inscribed -- IV. Site transformations. 520 $a "The original notion of the palimpsest--one that embodies writing, erasure, and rewriting--lends itself especially well to the interpretation of architectural monuments and landscape sites. These are by their very nature often modified significantly over time, leaving them to display a complex layering of forms and a sedimentation of meanings related to the different episodes in their ongoing lives. This volume explores and develops the idea of the architectural and site palimpsest through eleven case studies drawn from different parts of the globe, from Europe and America to Africa and South Asia, and ranging in time from Roman Pompeii and medieval Cairo to modern-day Rwanda and contemporary New York. The purpose behind such chronological and cultural breadth is to provide a multiplicity of examples from which a theoretical model of the three-dimensional palimpsest can be developed, and which would be applicable to monuments and sites from different historical periods and vastly diverse geographical contexts. While there have been many studies of buildings and sites investigating specific, synchronic episodes in their biographies, very few have approached them from the diachronic perspective of the palimpsest, that is, recognizing that the fourth dimension--that of duration--is essential to understanding them as both historic and contemporary entities. As a hermeneutic tool, the concept of the palimpsest embraces the totality of time "compressed" in a given monument or site, while permitting the extraction of a series of legible and meaningful episodes that allow us to read those palimpsests as a narrative of historical processes, whether that narrative is one of deliberate revision, or one of unintended effect. This volume presents a range of methodological possibilities comfortably nestled under a single conceptual umbrella, demonstrating how the notion of the palimpsest can become a paradigm-shifting framework for future, collaborative research in architectural and landscape history." --Publisher's web site, viewed 3/1/2018 650 0 $a Architecture $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Symbolism in architecture. 650 0 $a Architecture and society. 700 1 $a Aksamija, Nadja, $e editor. 700 1 $a Maines, Clark, $d 1945- $e editor. 700 1 $a Wagoner, Phillip B., $d 1955- $e editor. 830 0 $a Architectural crossroads ; $v v. 4. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304014155.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=128A2358688611E8A317244297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search