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From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome

From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome

Burroughs, Charles

Paperback

General DesignGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262527871
ISBN13: 9780262527873
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Dec 27 1990
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Burroughs brings an especially wide range of explanatory models--from social history, cultural anthropology, iconology and semiotics--to bear in his analysis of urban reform and the shifts in architectural design that emerged in early Renaissance Rome.

Applying the latest practices from critical theory and discourse to the built environment of early Renaissance Rome, Charles Burroughs sees the city as a field of visual communication and rhetoric. He explores the symbolic dimension of the cultural landscape and the operation of architectural and other visual signs in the urban environment. The result is a profound reconceiving of the implications for the study of Renaissance Rome of the notion of the city as text. Central to Burrough's project is the articulation of a model of cultural mediation and production that is distinct from the standard notion of patronage as a unilateral transaction.

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