Name: Site, Symbol and Cultural Landscape
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Site, Symbol and Cultural Landscape

Edited By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This volume explores cultural landscapes and architectural symbols through the notion of genius loci. Focused on Lithuanian historical contexts, these essays provide insights into the making and destruction of landscapes for architects, historians, and scholars globally.

This volume explores the relationship between sites, architectural symbols and cultural landscapes, and discusses a variety of issues related to the central themes of the…

This volume explores the relationship between sites, architectural symbols and cultural landscapes, and discusses a variety of issues related to the central themes of the book, providing insights into the history, as well as the present development, of cultural landscapes.

Contributors to this book—architects, architectural historians and theorists—reconsider the notion of genius loci and its importance in shaping historical landscapes in the eastern part of Europe. Despite being focused on Lithuanian historical and architectural contexts, these essays will be of interest to anyone who approaches architectural and urban legacies as part of general culture.

Transcending local realities, and providing insights into the making and destruction of cultural landscapes, the book will be useful to architects and architectural historians, as well as scholars dealing with urban and landscape issues not only in Europe, but also in other parts of the globe.

Dr Almantas Samalavičius is Professor at the School of Architecture at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, and at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is the author of many scholarly books, including Ideas and Structures: Essays in Architectural History (2011) and Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism: Essays in History and Aesthetics (2019), and is the editor of more than a dozen collections of essays and anthologies, including Rethinking Architecture and the Built Environment (2017). His books, essays and articles have been translated into some 14 languages, and he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism.

Kostas Biliūnas, Arnoldas Gabrėnas, Agnė Gabrėnienė, Liutauras Nekrošius, Edita Riaubienė, Stasys Samalavičius, Goda Sūdžiūtė, Dalia Traškinaitė, Almantas Samalavičius

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-7588-8
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7588-2
Date of Publication: 2021-11-03

Paperback

ISBN: 1-5275-9634-6
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9634-4
Date of Publication: 2023-04-22

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-7651-5
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7651-3
Date of Publication: 2023-04-22

Category: Physical Sciences, Building and Construction, Technical Architecture

Pages: 165

Subject Codes:

BIC: AM, AMX, AMV
THEMA: AM, AMX, AMV

Pages: 165

"This book skillfully portrays the historical and sociocultural context for current cultural preservation efforts in Lithuania. In the foreword, the editor, Almantas Samalavičius, opens the collection of nine essays with the argument that the cultural landscape, its symbolic and spiritual dimensions, has largely been ignored by modernism. It is important today for scholars of urban planning to give priority to genius loci (spirit of place) to create livable urban environments and meaningful architecture. The theme of genius loci as pioneered by the Norwegian scholar Christian Norberg-Schulz is especially fruitful for discussing the built environment of historic places."
- Milda B. Richardson, Journal of Baltic Studies