Kastra: Architecture and Culture in the Aegean Archipelago

Authors

Constantine E. Michaelides, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Contributors

Dmitris Plivouris (Art Director)

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Final version of Kastra: Architecture and Culture in the Aegean Archipelago, published Summer 2018. “Kastra: Architecture and Culture in the Aegean Archipelago,” is a sequel to “The Aegean Crucible: Tracing Vernacular Architecture in Post-Byzantine Centuries,” published in 2004. “The Aegean Crucible” focused on the vernacular architecture of the Aegean archipelago, while “Kastra” focuses on the collective fortification, a building type vital to survival in the region, during the thirteenth-to- eighteenth-century period. “Kastra” was also written on the conviction that what we identify today as the vernacular architecture of the Aegean islands emerged from the building of Kastra, the medieval collective fortifications of the Aegean archipelago. “Kastra” is a book about architecture and culture, written by an architect and addressed to the general public rather than to specialists. Observations and “notes” in the form of color slides taken during repeated visits to the region form the basic skeleton of the book, which is also enriched by the helicopter-based photographs of Nikos Daniilidis. Includes bibliographical references, index and gazeteer. Contents: Doges, Knights, Pashas and Pirates. The Aegean Archipelago. The Vernacular Response: Collective Fortifications. The Formal response: Detached Fortification Walls. The Hybrid Response: Sharing Lessons. Constantine (Dinos) E. Michaelides, FAIA, is emeritus dean and professor of the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Athens, he received an architecture diploma from the National Technical University in 1952 and earned an M.Arch. from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in 1957.

Document Type

Book

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7936/K7C828QW

ISBN

978-1-941823-15-6

Publication Date

6-4-2018

Publisher

Washington University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis

City

Saint Louis

Disciplines

Architectural History and Criticism | Architecture | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Architecture

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Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7C828QW High resolution version (113 MB) and individual sections available as supplemental content. For assistance accessing this book, please email digital AT wumail DOT wustl DOT edu.

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Recommended Citation

Michaelides, Constantine E., "Kastra: Architecture and Culture in the Aegean Archipelago" (2018). Books and Monographs. 41.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/41