Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power
Download or Read eBook Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power PDF written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Gülru Necipoğlu |
| Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015021615631 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power by : Gülru Necipoğlu
Book excerpt: Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.
