{"title":"Jaap Evert Abrahamse, Metropolis in the Making: A Planning History of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), 535 pp. incl. 100 colour and 105 b&w ills, ISBN 9782503580302, €125","authors":"Freek Schmidt","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"32 1","pages":"411 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88840398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patrick Zamarian, The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years (London: Lund Humphries, 2020), 208 pp. incl. 25 colour and 90 b&w ills, ISBN 9781848224063, £45","authors":"E. Darling","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"86 1","pages":"431 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78237771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrizio Nevola, Street Life in Renaissance Italy (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020), 320 pp. incl. 160 colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9780300175431, £45","authors":"Deborah Howard","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"18 1","pages":"405 - 407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72743616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philibert de L’Orme’s Dome in the Chapel of the Château d’Anet: The Role of Stereotomy","authors":"S. Galletti","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.11","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The coffered dome designed by Philibert de L’Orme (1514-70) for the chapel of the Château d’Anet in northern France between 1549 and 1552 is a masterpiece of stereotomy — the stone vaulting technique characterised by the custom cutting (or dressing) of a vault’s components or voussoirs. The dome was executed by first individually dressing its large voussoirs, so that they would fit one another precisely, and then dry assembling them like the pieces of a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. The spiralling ribs that form the coffers added a layer of complexity to the work, for they are embedded in the voussoirs; thus the exact shape and position of the rib sections belonging to each voussoir had to be calculated precisely before dressing to ensure that, after assembling, they would form the correct pattern over the vault’s surface. The dome’s execution method continues to baffle historians, in particular with regard to the transfer of the complex pattern formed by the ribs on to the templates used by the stonecutters to shape the voussoirs. Based on a new 3D laser scan of the dome and on the analysis of late medieval and early modern stereotomic practices and theories, this article offers a new interpretation of the methods that de L’Orme adopted at Anet and of their significance within the panorama of sixteenth-century architectural practice and theory.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"9 1","pages":"253 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77096871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ideal Design by Negotiation: The Construction of Philip the Good’s Palais Rihour at Lille","authors":"Merlijn Hurx","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.10","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Between 1459 and 1474, the duke of Burgundy ordered the construction of an entirely new residence in Lille, known as Palais Rihour. It was Philip the Good’s most ambitious architectural project, which set new standards for the display of princely magnificence. Among the new architectural features were a regular plan, a long gallery, a square stair tower with straight flights, and brick-and-stone masonry. The design had a significant impact on the development of court architecture in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain and northern Europe. Despite its importance, Rihour has received little scholarly attention, the major work by Max Bruchet being almost a century old. The study of Philip’s residence is hampered by the loss of most of the structure. Following damage by two major fires in the eighteenth century, the entire complex was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century and today only the chapel and the relocated monumental stair tower survive. However, extensive archival research allows for a detailed reconstruction of Rihour’s phases of construction. The exceptionally numerous surviving letters offer a rare insight into the planning process and reveal the close involvement of Philip (1396-1467), and later his son Charles the Bold (1433-77), in the construction. Both Valois princes were concerned with minute details, and their frequent changes of mind caused despair among the building’s administrators, the auditors of the Chambre des Comptes of Flanders. The administrators advocated a more pragmatic approach, proposing cheaper alternative solutions to balance cost with the speed of construction. The innovative design was thus also the product of compromise.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"2015 1","pages":"223 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73321012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vaughan Hart, Christopher Wren: In Search of Eastern Antiquity (New Haven and London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 2020), 209 pp. incl. 180 colour and b&w ills, ISBN 9781913907079, £45","authors":"R. Bowdler","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.21","url":null,"abstract":"by the early modern city, such as the problem of finding drinking water for the city’s population, or the fact that the canals functioned as an open sewer that spread an almost continuous stench. Connection with the Amstel, set lower than the canal system, was also problematic, solved only two centuries later with a system of new sluices and pumping stations around the city. Rather than lofty ambitions and a single unified town masterplan, it was the pragmatism of the ruling merchant elite that characterised the approach taken to expanding Amsterdam, and makes it stand out as an interesting case of early modern planning. The spatial development of its harbours, its stacked warehouses, the ordering of its urban structure, its residential environment of the canal district and the regulations to design, build and maintain it, were all governed by the city’s commercial interests. Abrahamse’s achievement is to show in detail how this seventeenth-century city was built.","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"6 1","pages":"413 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86471417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daniel Barber, Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 336 pp. incl. 196 b&w and 76 colour ills, ISBN 9780691170039, £50 (paperback)","authors":"F. Urban","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74051724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sam Wetherell, Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 272 pp. incl. 43 b&w ills, ISBN 9780691193755, £30","authors":"A. Fair","doi":"10.1017/arh.2021.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43293,"journal":{"name":"ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY","volume":"24 1","pages":"425 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74230267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}