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Daidalos at work : a phenomenological approach to the study of Minoan architecture
Intro -- Editing -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Architecture and Archaeology: Tasks and Tools -- A Phenomenological Approach -- Managing Absence and Image Making in Archaeology -- Minoan Architecture in the Turmoil of the 20th Century -...
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Daidalos at Work : A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture |
| Author Notes: | Clairy Palyvou |
| Summary: | Intro -- Editing -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Architecture and Archaeology: Tasks and Tools -- A Phenomenological Approach -- Managing Absence and Image Making in Archaeology -- Minoan Architecture in the Turmoil of the 20th Century -- The Pioneers -- On Words, Names, and Terms: "Must a Name Mean Something?" -- The Impossible Typology of a Continuum -- Relative Time, Absolute Chronologies -- Land Matters -- The Accident of Location -- The Genius Loci and the Poetics of the Natural Environment -- A Nature Inhabited by Gods, Artists, and Geometers -- The Circle and the Square -- Boundaries and Connectors -- Insulation and Communication -- Bounding Elements -- Connectors -- Hierarchical Circulatory Patterns and the Curse of the Labyrinth -- Configuration of the Constituent Parts -- The Way: Approach and Departure -- Entry and Egress: Crossing the Threshold -- In Between: The Porch -- The Vestibule: An Arriving-Leaving Place -- The Room with the Central Column: Marking the Center -- The Minoan Hall: Symmetry, Order, and Gradation -- The Polythyron Hall: Mutability -- Lustral Basin and Pillar Crypt: Back to the Archetypes -- Storage and Service -- Places with No Names and Tasks out of Place -- Outdoor Spaces -- Design and Execution -- The Commissioner, the Architect, and the Process -- Composition and Design Tools -- The Quantitative Aspect of Architecture -- The Art of Building -- Building as Technology -- Building Materials -- Structural Systems: Massive versus Skeleton -- Multistory Construction -- Standardization (and Prefabrication?) -- Responding to Seismic Threat -- The Art of Appearance -- Undulating Ground, Indented Facades, Stepped Skyline -- Solids and Voids -- Ordering Principles -- The Elusive Effect of Symmetry -- Ornament: The Art of Display and Concealment Color and Light Effects -- On Function in Architecture and Archaeology -- The Many Meanings of Function -- Capacity, Tolerance, and Time -- The Symbolic Capacity of Architecture: Monumentality -- The Minoan Palace Empowering the Center -- On Names and Terms (Again) -- The Taking Place of the Palace: Group Design -- Keeping the Distance: The West Court and West Facade -- Access and Entrance Systems -- Void but Not Empty: The Central Court -- Unifying Facades and Interlocking Elements: Porticoes and Balconies -- Constituent Zones -- Patterns of Connectivity and Coherence -- Back to the 21st Century a.d. Reflections from the Future -- The Minoan Distance: Myths and Realities -- Common Traits in Asymptote Trajectories -- The Minoan Modernity: A True Genesis -- References -- Index -- Fig. 1. Theseus fighting the Minotaur, as depicted on an Attic black-figure vase. After Michailidou 1981, fig. 5. -- Fig. 2. Map of the island of Crete showing major Minoan sites. Map C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 3. Architecture and archaeology circling around the eternal present. Drawing C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 4. West Wing of the Palace of Knossos during excavation (top) and after Evans's reconstitution work (bottom). Courtesy Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. -- Fig. 5. Stone fence on a Cycladic island, intact (top) and in ruins (bottom). Konstantinidis 1975, figs. 26, 27. -- Fig. 6. Reconstructed Piano Nobile of the Palace of Knossos and surrounding landscape, from the west. Photo C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 7. Theatral Area at Knossos: (a) from the northwest as found in 1923 (Evans 1921-1935, II.2, fig. 363) -- (b) today, after Evans's interventions, from the northwest (courtesy M. Papadantonakis) -- (c) from the west, isolated by a green zone and now allud Fig. 8. Our perception of Minoan architecture is highly influenced by stereotypical images of Knossos, such as this widely published watercolor of the Central Court by Piet de Jong. Courtesy Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Hellenic Ministry of Cultur -- Fig. 9. Arthur Evans, Theodore Fyfe, and Duncan Mackenzie at Knossos in 1901. Courtesy Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. -- Fig. 10. Section through the light-well of the Domestic Quarters at Knossos, looking toward the Grand Staircase, by Christian Doll. Evans 1921-1935, I, fig. 247. -- Fig. 11. Cultivation terraces on Syros. Lavvas and Philippidis, eds., 1983-1991, II, fig. 225. -- Fig. 12. Plain of Mochlos, from the southeast. Courtesy I. Swindale. -- Fig. 13. A rich range of shades guide the gaze to the far end of the horizon. Photo C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 14. The mild climate of the Aegean promotes outdoor living. Konstantinidis 1975, fig. 2. -- Fig. 15. Baetyl and enclosure wall in the Eileithyia Cave. Betancourt et al. 2000, fig. 5. -- Fig. 16. Plan showing the enclosure wall, platform, and procession road of Kato Syme. After Zareifis 2007, table 180. -- Fig. 17. General view of the sanctuary of Kato Syme., looking southeast Zareifis 2007, pl. 14α. -- Fig. 18. Aerial photo of the Palace of Knossos with Mt. Juktas on the horizon, facing south. Photo Gordon Gahan, National Geographic Creative. -- Fig. 20. Wall painting from the House of the Frescoes, Knossos. Courtesy Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports-Archaeological Receipts Fund. -- Fig. 21. Protopalatial krater with flowers in relief from Phaistos. Ht. 45.0 cm. Courtesy Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports-Archaeological Receipts Fund Fig. 22. Human body encapsulated in circles and squares: Modular Man (left) and Vitruvian man (right). Left: after Le Corbusier 1954, fig. 100 -- right: after Leonardo da Vinci. -- Fig. 23. Elevated circular platform at Knossos, from the northwest. Warren 1984a, pl. 31:c. -- Fig. 24. Male figurines set on a circular platform with low parapet and Horns of Consecration from the Kamilari tholos tomb. Ht. 17.5 -- diam. base 14.3 cm. Courtesy Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports-Archaeological -- Fig. 25. Circular pit or kouloura at Knossos. Evans 1921-1935, II, fig. 382. -- Fig. 26. Circular subterranean structures: (a) hypogaeum at Knossos (after Evans 1921-1935, I, fig. 74) -- (b) cistern at Zakros (courtesy L. Platon, Archive of the Zakros Excavations) -- (c) cistern at Archanes (after Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki 199 -- Fig. 27. Cistern at Zakros. Courtesy L. Platon, Archive of the Zakros Excavations. Archive of the Zakros Excavations. -- Fig. 29. Circular hut-urn with figure of goddess from Knossos. Ht. 8.5 cm. Evans 1921-1935, II, fig. 63. -- Fig. 30. Circular hut model from Archanes. H. 18.0 cm. Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki 1991, fig. 9. -- Fig. 31. Main attributes of the circle (top) showing its value as a social expression of equality and coexistence through dancing and playing (bottom). Drawing C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 32. Clay figurines of female dancers from Palaikastro. Ht. 11.9-13.0 cm.. Courtesy Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports-Archaeological Receipts Fund. -- Fig. 33. Aerial view of tholos tomb at Kamilari. La Rosa 1992a, fig. 14.2. -- Fig. 34. Note the combination of circles and orthogonals in funerary architecture at Archanes. Top: Tholos Tomb Gamma (Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki 1997, fig. 134, plan 45) bottom: Mycenaean burials (Sakellarakis and Sapouna-Sakellaraki 1997, fig -- Fig. 35. Main attributes of the square. Drawing C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 36. Architecture is the insulation humans created to protect themselves both physically and spiritually -- clothing is another such means of insulation. Drawing C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 37. Archetypal boundary: a stone fence on a Cycladic island. Kon- stantinidis 1975, fig. 43. -- Fig. 38. Modern threshing floor (left) and threshing floor depicted in the Miniature Frieze from Akrotiri, Thera (right). Left: Konstantinidis 1975, fig. 23 -- right: Doumas 1992, fig. 28. -- Fig. 39. Walking through the narrow alleys of this Cycladic settlement on Mykonos, one feels almost obliged to avoid stepping on the colorful pavement that defines the limits of the private domain. Lavvas and Philippidis, eds., 1983-1991, II, fig. 34. -- Fig. 41. Examples of delimiting floors in Neopalatial architecture: (a) Stratigraphical Museum, Knossos (after Warren 1984b, 50) -- (b, c) Nirou Chani (after Evans 1921-1935, II.1, fig. 167) -- (d) House of the Chancel Screen, Knossos (after Evans 1921-1935, -- Fig. 42. Wall-and-window, representing in architecture the primeval act of separation or communication between the interior and exterior space. Drawing C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 43. Plan of Hagia Photia. After Tsipopoulou 1992, fig. 6.3. -- Fig. 44. Sacred enclosure depicted on the Zakros rhyton. Shaw 1978, fig. 9. -- Fig. 45. Difference between a pitched roof and flat roof exemplified by two alternative reconstructions of the Megaron at Tiryns. Top left: after Müller 1930, pl. 42 -- von Reber 1898 -- top right: after Müller 1930, pl. 42 -- bottom: drawings C. Palyvou. -- Fig. 46. Evans's reconstitution of the Throne Room at Knossos. Photo Gordon Gahan, National Geographic Creative Fig. 47. The location of the door(s) in a room defines its circulatory pattern and useful (shaded) areas. Drawing C. Palyvou |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 254 Seiten) Illustrationen, 1 Karte, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 9781623034269 |
