Zeichen Des Wehrhaften/Martial Signifiers: Festungsbauten Von Francesco Di Giorgio Martini/Fortress Complexes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini

by Fritz Barth and Olaf Metzel

Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The alien-looking creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3936681422
• ISBN13: 9783936681420
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Axel Menges
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.2"