The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense

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Charles Burroughs (State University of New York, Binghamton)

The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade

Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense

Charles Burroughs (State University of New York, Binghamton)

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English

Cambridge University Press
30 April 2009

Architectural structure & design; Palaces, chateaux, country houses

Series: Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics

The architectural facade addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying, or dissembling, interior arrangements. In this book, Charles Burroughs tracks the emergence of the facade in late medieval Florence and then follows the sharply diverging reactions of Renaissance architects to new demands and possibilities for representation in both residential and governmental contexts. Understanding the facade as an assemblage of elements of diverse character and origin, Burroughs explores the wide range of formal solutions available to architects and patrons. In the absence of explicit reflection on the facade in Renaissance architectural discourse, Burroughs notes the theoretical implications of certain celebrated designs, implying mediation on the nature of architecture itself and the society it serves and represents, as well as on the relationship between nature and culture.

By: Charles Burroughs (State University of New York Binghamton)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780521109734
ISBN 10: 0521109736
Series: Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 30 April 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. The forked road to modernity: ambiguities of the Renaissance facade; 2. Domestic architecture and Boccaccian drama: court and city in Florentine culture; 3. Between opacity and rhetoric: the facade in Trecento Florence; 4. The facade in question: Brunelleschi; 5. The bones of grammar and the rhetoric of flesh; 6. Setting and subject: the city of presences and the street as stage; 7. Bramante and the emblematic facade; 8. Facades on parade: architecture between court and city; 9. From street to territory: projections of the urban facade; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews for The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense

The strength of the book is undeniably Burroughs's methodology and sources outside the scope of traditional architectural studies, and to this end Burroughs accomplishes his goal of writing something that will bridge the gap between practical examinations of Renaissance architecture and theory. Michelle Duran-McLure, University of Montevallo, H-Net ...no one who studies the facades of Rome and Florence will have read more widely or pack his notes more intriguingly with the latest in cultural studies and architectural theory [than Burroughs]. Renaissance Quarterly ...a provocative look at secular, mostly domestic, facades as cultural phenomena...at once logical and idiosyncratic, a combination that recalls the speed and serendipity of discourse around a seminar table. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ...Burrough's interpretive framework offers a welcome and stimulating reconsideration of many subjects. Sixteenth Century Journal, Andrew Hopkins, Villa I Tatti, Florence