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Cornerstone – The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia
Pedro Azara
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Description for Cornerstone – The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia
Paperback. ES Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 226.
Taking us back to the earliest days of cities-and the earliest days of human civilization-in Mesopotamia, Pedro Azara in Cornerstone offers a contemporary view on the rise and growth of early cities and urban culture. Investigating ruins and exploring archaeological sites, Azara helps us understand how the earliest cities looked and felt, what the first architects and their buildings were like, and what nascent aesthetic ideals they upheld. Azara's scholarship is rigorous and far-reaching, but his writing is agile, direct, and entertaining as he not only brings the far-distant past to life, but teases out its relevance for our understanding ... Read more
Taking us back to the earliest days of cities-and the earliest days of human civilization-in Mesopotamia, Pedro Azara in Cornerstone offers a contemporary view on the rise and growth of early cities and urban culture. Investigating ruins and exploring archaeological sites, Azara helps us understand how the earliest cities looked and felt, what the first architects and their buildings were like, and what nascent aesthetic ideals they upheld. Azara's scholarship is rigorous and far-reaching, but his writing is agile, direct, and entertaining as he not only brings the far-distant past to life, but teases out its relevance for our understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Editorial Tenov S.L. Spain
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
Number of Pages
106
Place of Publication
Barcelona, Spain
ISBN
9788493923174
SKU
V9788493923174
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About Pedro Azara
Pedro Azara is an architect, a curator, and professor of aesthetics at the ETSAB School of Architecture in Barcelona. Jeffrey Swartz has translated dozens of books from Spanish into English.
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