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ISBN: 9780262340755 0262340755 9780262533478 0262533472 0262340747 9780262340748 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press,
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An illustrated guide to the monumental and non-monumental final resting places of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright. All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of buildings they have designed. But what about the final spaces that architects themselves will occupy? Are architects' gravesites more monumental-more architectural-than others? This unique book provides an illustrated guide to more than 200 gravesites of famous architects, almost all of them in the United States. Led by our intrepid author, Henry Kuehn, we find that most graves of architects are not monumental but rather modest, that many architects did not design their final resting places, and that a surprising number had their ashes scattered. Architects' Gravesites offers an alphabetical listing, from Alvar Aalto and Dankmar Adler (Louis Sullivan's partner) to Frank Lloyd Wright and Minoru Yamasaki (designer of the Word Trade Center's twin towers). Each entry includes a brief note on the architect's career and a color photograph of the site. For example, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is buried in Chicago under a simple granite slab designed by his architect grandson; Louise Bethune, the first American woman to become a professional architect, is buried under a headstone inscribed only with her husband's name (a plaque honoring her achievements was installed later); Philip Johnson's ashes were spread in his rose garden, with no marker, across the street from his famous Glass House; and the grave of Pierre L'Enfant in Arlington National Cemetery offers a breathtaking view of Washington, D.C., the city he designed. Architects' Gravesites is an architectural guide like no other, revealing as much about mortality as about monumentality.
Architectes --- Monuments funéraires --- Sepulchral monuments --- Architects --- Tombes --- Tombs --- 726.82 --- Grafmonumenten ; graftombes ; Noord-Amerika --- 19de en 20ste eeuw --- Begraafplaatsen ; grafstenen en -monumenten ; van architecten --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Professional employees --- Religieuze architectuur ; grafmonumenten --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General --- Monuments funéraires
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ISBN: 9781107141971 1107141974 9781316494035 9781316506776 1108223036 1108216285 1108214932 110821763X 1108224385 1316494039 1316506770 1108206832 9781108224383 Year: 2017 Volume: *31 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybrid instigated by a lunatic king, this fascinating project of bricolage has been written out of history. This volume redresses that imbalance, interpreting Nemrud Dağ as an attempt at canon building by Antiochos I in order to construct a dynastic ideology and social order, and proving the monument's importance for our understanding of a crucial transitional phase from Hellenistic to Roman. Hellenistic Commagene therefore holds a profound significance for a number of discussions, such as the functioning of the Hellenistic koine and the genesis of Roman 'art', Hellenism and Persianism in antiquity, dynastic propaganda and the power of images, Romanisation in the East, the contextualising of the Augustan cultural revolution, and the role of Greek culture in the Roman world.
Antiquities. --- Hellenism. --- Hellénisme --- Antiochus --- Middle East --- Turkey --- Nemrut Dagi Mound (Turkey) --- Commagene --- Nemrut Dagi (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tomb. --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey). --- Hellénisme --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Daği (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Mounds --- Tumulus --- Nemrut Dağı (Turquie) --- Religion --- Sepulchral monuments --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Kommagene --- Comagene --- Komagen --- Nemroudh Dagh Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrud Dağ Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Dağı Site (Turkey) --- Antiquities
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