Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity

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Christian Frost

Architecture and Cultural Continuity

The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity

Christian Frost

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
06 March 2025

History of architecture; Pageants, parades, festivals; Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Urban & municipal planning

Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture – arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting.

A work in three parts, the book first analyses in-depth the Festival of San Giovanni in Florence, an annual series of celebrations involving the entire city. Tracing its history from its Roman origins via the Renaissance through to contemporary times, this case study is used to explore ideas of continuity and tradition and how these shape and are shaped by architecture and the city. Part 2 gathers theoretical tools from philosophy, anthropology, and performance studies to offer a framework for the appraisal of architecture – whether engaged in festival or simply part of the background to everyday life – as experience rather than form. The final part presents historic and contemporary case studies to explain the theory in practice, from Lord Leighton’s House in London to Beit Beirut in Lebanon, and from Salisbury’s medieval Chapterhouse to the contemporary Australian Parliament building.

Written for architectural theorists, historians, and designers alike, this book will allow the reader to assess architecture in a way that re-addresses aspects of history often obscured by post-enlightenment thinking, and reveals an architecture rooted in cultural traditions better able to contribute to the diverse communities of the future.

By: Christian Frost
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9781350411371
ISBN 10: 135041137X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 06 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christian Frost is Professor of Architecture and Head of Research in the School of Art, Architecture & Design at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Reviews for Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity

In this beautifully illustrated book, Christian Frost has produced a work of great erudition and imagination, a provocative tour de force, exploring the cultural potential of architecture through the ages through the idea of the festive. * Maximilian Sternberg, University of Cambridge, UK *