William Richard Lethaby Livres
William Richard Lethaby fut un architecte et historien de l'architecture anglais dont les idées influencèrent profondément le mouvement Arts and Crafts tardif et le mouvement Moderne précoce en architecture. Son impact s'étendit de manière significative aux domaines de la conservation et de l'éducation artistique. L'approche de Lethaby soulignait une connexion profonde avec l'histoire et la tradition artisanale, posant ainsi les bases des futurs discours architecturaux. Son œuvre continue d'inspirer ceux qui cherchent à comprendre les principes fondamentaux du design et du patrimoine bâti.
The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building
- 316pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Sancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is no ruin, nor does it belong to a past world of constructive ideas although it precedes by seven hundred years the fourth culmination of the building art in Chartres, Amiens, or Bourges, and thus must ever stand as the supreme monument of the Christian cycle. Our first object has been to attempt some disentanglement of the history of the Church and an analysis of its design and construction; on the one hand, we have been led a step or two into the labyrinth of Constantinopolitan topography, on the other, we have thought that the great Church offers the best point of view for the observation of the Byzantine theory of building. “A work as they report surpassing every edifice in the world.” - William of Malmesbury “The fairest church in all the world.” - Sir John Mandeville
