Venetian Vernacular Architecture: Traditional Housing in the Venetian Lagoon

by Richard J. Goy

• ISBN13: 9780521154901
• ISBN10: 0521154901
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is an introduction to the vernacular or 'minor' architecture of the villages of the Venetian lagoon, excluding the historic centre of the city itself. This 1989 study provides an authoritative account of their architectural style and development and a companion volume to Dr Goy's Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon (1985). In a broadly based and fully illustrated discussion, the author aims to show how certain, often palatial, architectural forms found in the Venetian metropolis were modified when transferred to the outlying, 'suburban' communities of the lagoon, which were constructed in far more trying conditions when materials and skilled labour were both in short supply. The book offers an encyclopaedic guide to almost all aspects of the building process, paying particular attention to materials, motifs, decoration and the organisation of labour, and also gives valuable English translations of such primary sources as Sansovino and Palladio.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary of terms

Building in the Venetian Lagoon:

General introduction

The lagunar environment

An historical introduction

Building materials and their sources

Methods of construction and vernacular details

The guild system and the building crafts

The economics of building in the lagoon

Housing Typology:

The city Palazzo-Fòntego: its structure and appearance

Derivations from the Palazzo-Fòntego in the city

Housing typology in the lagoon villages: an introduction

The Architecture of the Lagoon: an Illustrated Survey:

Murano

Burano: a village of fishermen's cottages

Pellestrina

The rural and semi-rural environment: Mazzorbo, Torcello and Malamocco

Conclusions

Postscript

Appendices

Select bibliography

Index

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