Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples
Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199678389
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 254x196x20 mm
- Weight 914 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 135 in-text black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
This study explores Roman luxury villa lifestyle and architecture to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples, it shows how the Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape.
MoreLong description:
This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. Zarmakoupi seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural phenomenon and a crucial element in the construction of Roman cultural identity. In their effort to accommodate the Greek style, Romans created something completely unprecedented in the history of architecture. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE - 79 CE), the volume shows that in designing for luxury, Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape, an interplay which is still seen in architectural design today.
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples would be a rewarding investment for anyone enrolled in a course on Roman domestic architecture. It is definitely a book to add to the reading list.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Roman Luxury Villas: Introduction, Historiography, and Scope
Case Studies
Porticus and Cryptoporticus
Porticoed Gardens
Water Features: Euripi, Natationes, and Nymphaea
Triclinia and Dining Facilities
Designing for Luxury
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
