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Sinan : Ottoman architecture and its values today
- Title
- Sinan : Ottoman architecture and its values today / Godfrey Goodwin.
- Author
- Goodwin, Godfrey.
- Publication
- London : Saqi Books, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA1373.S5 G661 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 132 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 30 cm
- Summary
- Godfrey Goodwin focuses on the work of one of the greatest sixteenth-century architects, Sinan Abdulmennan, showing how he revolutionized inherited Ottoman building methods, a tradition based on structure by an awareness of the psychology of space. Until Sinan, Ottoman architecture had been a reading of parts. He broke down the distinct forms that had created a certain rigidity, thus freeing interior space and interior form simultaneously. Underlying his architectural concepts are the mathematical theories and practices of Classical Greece. Sinan shared these ideals of proportion and balance with builders in the WestƯ indeed; the author argues that the work of Sinan and that of Bramante and Palladio must be seen as part of the same intellectual revolution.
- Alternative Title
- Ottoman architecture and its values today
- Subjects
- Architecture ottomane > Turquie
- Islamic architecture > Turkey
- Architecture, Ottoman > Turkey
- Sinan
- Sinan, Mimar, (1489-1588)
- Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588 > Criticism and interpretation
- Sinan 1489-1588
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Osmanisches Reich
- Turkey
- Architecture ottomane > Turquie > Influence grecque
- Architecture islamique > Turquie
- Architecture > Turquie > Istanbul (Turquie) > 16e siècle
- Architects > Turkey > 16th century
- Bouwkunst
- Osmanische Architektur
- Architektur
- Islamic architecture > Turkey > Greek influences
- Architecture, Ottoman > Turkey > Greek influences
- Architecture > Turkey
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Elements of a life -- Before Sinan -- Patronage and sites -- The Royal architect -- Other buildings -- Civil buildings -- Students and disciples -- Other mosques -- The importance of light -- Light and the Selimiye Mosque (1572-5) -- The dome -- The minaret -- Problems of interior space -- Space and form -- The recognition of apsidal form -- The courtyard -- Measuring the void -- Decoration -- Tiles -- Mathematics and architecture -- No building is an island -- The dimensions of genius -- The common denominator of Ottoman architecture -- Counting the dead.
- ISBN
- 0863561721
- 9780863561726
- LCCN
- 2023301455
- OCLC
- ocm28114376
- 28114376
- SCSB-9080536
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library