Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813342986)

For Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities, architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect's tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today. Whether travelling on holiday or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Italian mind and its great cities a little closer.

Author: David Mayernik
ISBN-10: 0813342988
ISBN-13: 9780813342986
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.55w x 0.69d