Venetian vernacular architecture : traditional housing in the Venetian lagoon
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Venetian vernacular architecture : traditional housing in the Venetian lagoon
Cambridge University Press, 2010, c1989
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 1989. Re-issued 2010"--T.p. verso
"Paperback reissue"--Back cover
Bibliography: p. 348-354
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is an introduction to the vernacular or 'minor' architecture of the villages of the Venetian lagoon, excluding the historic centre of the city itself. This 1989 study provides an authoritative account of their architectural style and development and a companion volume to Dr Goy's Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon (1985). In a broadly based and fully illustrated discussion, the author aims to show how certain, often palatial, architectural forms found in the Venetian metropolis were modified when transferred to the outlying, 'suburban' communities of the lagoon, which were constructed in far more trying conditions when materials and skilled labour were both in short supply. The book offers an encyclopaedic guide to almost all aspects of the building process, paying particular attention to materials, motifs, decoration and the organisation of labour, and also gives valuable English translations of such primary sources as Sansovino and Palladio.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of terms
- Part I. Building in the Venetian Lagoon: 1. General introduction
- 2. The lagunar environment
- 3. An historical introduction
- 4. Building materials and their sources
- 5. Methods of construction and vernacular details
- 6. The guild system and the building crafts
- 7. The economics of building in the lagoon
- Part II. Housing Typology: 8. The city Palazzo-Fontego: its structure and appearance
- 9. Derivations from the Palazzo-Fontego in the city
- 10. Housing typology in the lagoon villages: an introduction
- Part III. The Architecture of the Lagoon: an Illustrated Survey: 12. Murano
- 13. Burano: a village of fishermen's cottages
- 14. Pellestrina
- 14. The rural and semi-rural environment: Mazzorbo, Torcello and Malamocco
- 15. Conclusions
- Postscript
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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