Browsing Faculty of Architecture and Design by Subject "History of architecture"
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The chain tower in Kyrenia’s harbour, Cyprus
(Universidad de Granada, Universitat Politècnica de València, Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, 2020-05)In the Middle Ages a chain suspended between two towers defended the entrance of Kyrenia’s little harbour, like the chain across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. William de Oldenburg, who visited Cyprus in 1211 during ... -
Cyclical inversion of limits and centres: the formation process of the Regio quartadecima, Constantinople
(University of Strathclyde Publishing, 2022)The paper reconstructs the topography of Constantinople’s fourteenth region (regio XIV) applying the urban morphology analysis methods (Caniggia and Maffei, 1979) and the attractors’ theory (Camiz, 2018) to the fragmentary ... -
The double-chaired voussoir barrel vault on the Gymnasium Calidarium, Salamis Cyprus
(Gangemi Editore, 2019)The colonnade of the Salamis Gymnasium was excavated in 1890 (Arthur, Munro & Tubbs, 1891) and interpreted as part of a Temple of Zeus. The area was recognized as a thermal complex following new excavations in 1925, which ... -
Made without hands: survey, history and valorisation of the monastery of Panagia Acheiropoietos, Cyprus
(Firenze University Press, 2020)The north of Cyprus is a very complex area in terms of Cultural Heritage. The surveys of the Monastery of Acheiropoietos were undertaken in a scarcely studied context in which the political situation can generate important ... -
Modelli progettuali del locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269). Design models of the locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269)
(Steinhäuser Verlag, Wuppertal, 2021)On March the 2nd 1269 Philip from Pistoia, archbishop of Ravenna, in presence of a large group of persons, ordered the commune of Ravenna to assign a substantial urban area for the construction of the church, the convent ... -
Modelli teatrali per l’ampliamento della città medievale. Il progetto urbano per Zagarolo (1571-1605)
(Steinhäuser Verlag, Wuppertal, 2020-09)The text analyzes the urban project for Zagarolo, which in the past had been mainly considered the work of different hands, and through a particular attention to building types and fabrics, to the hierarchy of paths in ... -
Seminario internazionale: lettura e progetto del castello di Kyrenia. International workshop: reading and designing the Kyrenia castle
(DIDApress, Florence, 2018)The workshop “Reading and Designing the Kyrenia Castle” is one the results of the ongoing scientific collaboration between Girne American University (Department of Interior Architecture), with the Department of Architecture ... -
Shifting point-attractors: the central-symmetric flexi of via Flaminia and via Clodia near pons Milvius, Rome
(U+D editions, Rome, 2020)Recent urban morphology studies consider urban tissues as living organisms changing in time (Strappa, Carlotti, and Camiz, 2016), moreover even roads may be considered as organisms, and their diachronic deformations have ... -
The so-called “beach tower” of Kyrenia city walls, Cyprus
(Granada: Universidad de Granada, Universitat Politècnica de València, Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, 2020-05-05)The so-called “beach-tower” is the smallest of the three remaining towers belonging to the Kyrenia’s medieval enceinte. Semi-circular in plan, with circa 6 m of diameter, the tower is today partially obliterated by the ... -
The typological plan of Zaragoza for the typological process of the medieval city
(University of Strathclyde Publishing, 2022)Studies on the formation process of building types delineate a long term transition in the form of the city. The findings of the excavations done in Palmyra and Bet Shean have revealed that the transition from the late ...
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