This essay recalls the cultural breadth and historical transformations of architectural inscription, from sententious epigraphy to signage. It then focuses on a case from the periphery of Europe, in ...Ireland, where classicising interventions were conditioned by the encounter with Gaelic civilization. In the late eighteenth century, Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, remodelled the cathedral city of Armagh through the erection of a sequence of axially-related monuments and buildings which were also linked epigraphically. The essay explores how the inscriptions worked together to articulate the ambitions of Robinson's project and the meanings generated by the overlay of a classicising urbanistic intervention on an ancient Irish site with its own embedded topographical and literary relationships. Robinson's architectural inscriptions are not only in play with one another, but with earlier levels and kinds of monumental writing, pertaining to the Insular church and the pre-Christian mythological landscape. The architectural epigraphy is thus viewed as one manifestation amongst multiple strata of monumental and place-specific texts used to construct the pre-eminence of an ecclesiastical city.
TEMPO E ARCHITETTURA Lauria, Massimo; Pollo, Riccardo
Techne (Florence, Italy : 2011),
01/2020, Letnik:
20
Journal Article
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Il giornalista Federico Rampini nel richiamare un antico proverbio afgano «voi avete gli orologi, noi abbiamo il tempo» riflette sulla sua dimensione valoriale, che e cosa diversa dall'attitudine ...della cultura occidentale di misurarla questa dimensione, di attribuirle significati in funzione della sua precisa quantificazione (Rampini, 2013). Tra queste l'architettura che «rivendica quella quota di aspirazione alleternita che sta nel fondamento stesso di idea di umanita» (Gregotti, 1997). Un evento di portata non misurabile - la pandemia - invisibile, di cui non conosciamo e non riusciamo a immaginarne i contorni, un altro "iperoggetto", cosi potrebbe definirlo Timothy Morton, al pari del Global Warming e dell'Olocausto Nucleare (Morton, 2013). Il caso della basilica spagnola dimostra come la storia del rapporto tempo-architettura non segua schemi e successioni lineari tra progetto, edificazione e fruizione, mostrando il paradosso di una costruzione che e luogo simbolo di una cittå, fruita da milioni di visitatori ma non ancora completata, oggetto di restauro e di studi da parte delle discipline dell'ingegneria e dell'architettura.
This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is ...remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, surveys have been produced which enable accurate plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. Since there are almost no documents for the abbey before the 15th century which relate to construction matters, the building itself is primary evidence, and archaeology is an important element. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans and measured drawings including accurate reconstructions; comparative scale plans of Worcester and Tewkesbury are also included. The late 11th-12th century church is described in detail, along with the surviving claustral buildings. There is a chapter on polychromy and on the surviving 11th-12th century sculpture, and a full bibliography. The whole is set in context by Malcolm Thurlby, who comments on the wider sources and associations.
Little guidance exists for the phenomenological conduct of a literature review within qualitative research. Here I reimagine literature-reviewing from first principles as a phenomenological ...enterprise central to the conduct, as well as the contextualisation, of research, and I invite comment, correction and alternative reimagining from the community.
•AR and VR allow visitors to access the inaccessible from home.•Thanks to AR and VR, visitors can do anything, even the impossible and forbidden.•VR provides visitors with an intense educational and ...sacred experience.•Virtual cathedrals are so immersive that they give the illusion of being real.•The cost of AR and VR is compensated by higher admission fee and the value created.
It is no longer possible to enter the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, the most visited monument in the world, since its fire on April 15, 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has made tourism impossible for months and very difficult for years. However, virtual tours using immersive reality headsets provide a new alternative. This article studies how cathedrals can benefit from augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence to provide an intense cultural, historical, and religious experience for its visitors. A multiple case study is carried out in three cathedrals: Notre-Dame de Paris, France; the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England; and the Catedral de Santa María de la Sede in Seville, Spain. The findings show how immersive technologies can be used to preserve cathedrals and allow visitors to access the inaccessible from the comfort of their homes, to follow their desires, including the impossible and the forbidden, resulting in a deep spiritual experience and a perception of the virtual as being at least as powerful as that of the real.
