Henri Stierlin, born in Alexandria in 1928, dedicates his work to exploring ancient architecture and art, with a particular focus on ancient Egypt. His writings are characterized by a profound interest in the symbolic and cosmological dimensions of structures and artworks. Stierlin's approach emphasizes the interconnectedness of architecture, religion, and cosmology, seeking to uncover hidden meanings within monumental constructions. His publications often delve into revealing the mysteries and forgotten knowledge of ancient civilizations.
This album of the greatest Islamic art and architecture of Iran and India explores and celebrates cities from Tabriz to Khiva, Lahore to Sikandra. It offers a key to understanding the immense heritage left by hundreds of architects, landscape gardeners, calligraphers, miniaturists and weavers.
This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious centre, Palenque famous for its ceremonial centre, and Copan with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2500 glyphs are among the cities featured, along with Chichen Itza and its ball court, and Bonampak and its frescoes. These astounding creations testify to the knowledge and refinement of the most advanced of the pre-Columbian civilizations. Book jacket.
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This volume deals with Roman architecture in Italy, France, Spain, the Rhineland, and North Africa. It covers all the major Roman amphitheatres and arenas, temples and baths, aqueducts and fortresses, as well as Pompeii and Hardpan's Villa at Tivoli.
"For three millennia, the Valley of the Nile, from the Delta to Nubia, was an immense construction site. Stierlin shows how all these colossal edifices--pyramids, temples, tombs, palaces, storerooms, and fortresses--were endowed with a moving spiritual quality that made them unique." --Publisher description
A tri-lingual (English, German, and French) encyclopedia of the world's architecture, modern and historical.
This book gives an outline of the three thousand year long evolution of the Pharaohs.