Florence: The Renaissance as an Urban Environment
The historic center combines temples, palaces and public spaces of different stages. The city is better understood through their connections than through a list of masterpieces.
The historic center combines temples, palaces and public spaces of different stages. The city is better understood through their connections than through a list of masterpieces.
Console farms show the bearing system instead of covering it behind a facade.
The medieval abbey enters an 18th-century designed landscape.
Goiás illustrates a mining town’s development adapted to its site. UNESCO links the coherence of public and private buildings to local materials and traditional techniques.
The ensemble combines public and private buildings, mainly from the end of the 17th century. The unity of the square is built through the relations between its borders.
The ensemble belongs to the history of Shona societies.
The buildings for marine and scientific activities are read as a common spatial composition.
Guanajuato’s silver-mining history accompanies Baroque and neoclassical buildings. Underground streets and mining works form different parts of that context.
The Frank Gehry Museum combines complex exterior forms with various exhibition spaces. The materials, the digital design and the central atrium explain more than the famous facade.
The building from Justinian's time combines a large-scale dome and complex spatial organization. Its influence is understood both through the construction and through the place in the h...
The Church of St. Michael" offers a reading of a space with two pronounced ends.
Himeji Castle is a multitude of connected buildings and defensive solutions. White walls create a common image without making the composition simple.