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Author Acocella, Alfonso, 1954-

Title Stone architecture : ancient and modern construction skills / Alfonso Acocella ; translations, Alice Fisher, John Barr
Edition First edition
Published Milano, Italy : Skira : Lucense, 2006
©2004

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Description 623 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 35 cm
Contents Linear time, circular time -- The beginnings -- First, the stones of Egypt -- The "stone staircase", a bridge to immortality -- "Other" stone apparitions at Saqqarah -- The invisible project -- Beyond Saqqarah, Giza -- Walls -- The construction of walls -- Megalithic walls -- "Classical" polygonal masonry -- Polygonal "lesbian" masonry -- Trapezoid polygonal masonry -- Opus quadratum -- Irregular opus quadratum -- Isodomic opus quadratum -- Pseudisodomic opus quadratum -- "Headers and stretchers" opus quadratum -- Emplecton walls -- Rusticated masonry -- Greek rustication -- Roman rustication -- Renaissance rustication -- Types of rustication -- Contemporary irregular walls -- Types of irregular wall -- Regular walls - between oblivion and resuscitation -- Wall surfaces, space and light -- Squared-ashlar walls in Italy -- Columns -- The essence of columns -- The templar peristyle -- The wooden origins of the peristyle -- The conversion to stone -- The temple area : pteroma and naos -- The peristyle and its surrounds -- Stoas -- The architectural features of stoa -- Types of stoa -- The peristyle -- Royal Macedonian peristyles -- Mediterranean transplantation : the house on Monte lato -- The marbled peristyles of Delos -- Solitary rotundity : columns and the "other" modernity -- From the "modern Doric style" to the stylisation of columns -- Architraves -- Architraves and triliths -- Modern triliths -- Arches -- False arches -- The origins of the arch -- Greece : the supremacy of the stone arch -- Etruria : a necessary review of attribution -- Rome and the arch as protagonist -- Types of arches -- Simple arches with continuous profiles -- Arches with discontinuous profiles -- Platbands -- Types of platband -- The modern-day relevance of the arch -- Wall and floor coverings -- Polychromatic Roman opus sectile -- The use of marble in private spheres -- Opus sectile and painting -- The flight from color : monochromatic scenarios -- Contemporary stone surfaces -- Technical aspects and design of cladding -- Stone Roofs -- The origins of stone roofs -- Stone roofs in the Alps and Apennines -- Alpine roof types -- Contemporary lose -- Ligurian slate roofs -- Ligurian types of roof covering -- Stone roofs in the Mediterranean landscape -- Urban paving -- Stone-block paving -- Stone paving design -- Types of stone paving -- Stone-block paving -- Paving with smolleri -- Cubical stone setts -- Stone-block paving arrangements -- Cobblestone paving -- Modern cobblestone paving -- The material today -- Varietas and Admiratio -- The life of the material
Notes Originally published as L'Architettura di Pietra (Florence : Alinea, c2004)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture -- History.
Architecture -- Italy -- History.
Stone buildings -- History.
Stone buildings -- Europe -- Design and construction.
Stone buildings -- Europe -- History.
Stone buildings -- Italy -- History.
ISBN 8876246967
9788876246968
Other Titles Architettura di Pietra Antichi e nuovi magisteri costruttivi. English