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Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture. Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects
This paper assesses the labour-time invested in the construction of a selection of Late Bronze Age Cretan buildings. By considering them through the lens of ‘architectural energetics’, it explores the impact of building projects on the Minoan communities. It also highlights specific choices and behaviours made by the builders, such as the diffusion of architectural know-how, the selection of building materials, the involvement of specialists, or the marked disinterest for monumentality expressed through sheer size of the individual building components, thus stressing some of the idiosyncrasies of Minoan architecture in regard with architectures of other societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through this materialistic approach a complementary way to assess the impact of various technical and social parameters at play in the production of the Minoan built environment is offered.
Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture. Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects
This paper assesses the labour-time invested in the construction of a selection of Late Bronze Age Cretan buildings. By considering them through the lens of ‘architectural energetics’, it explores the impact of building projects on the Minoan communities. It also highlights specific choices and behaviours made by the builders, such as the diffusion of architectural know-how, the selection of building materials, the involvement of specialists, or the marked disinterest for monumentality expressed through sheer size of the individual building components, thus stressing some of the idiosyncrasies of Minoan architecture in regard with architectures of other societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through this materialistic approach a complementary way to assess the impact of various technical and social parameters at play in the production of the Minoan built environment is offered.
Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture. Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects
2017-01-01
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Electronic Resource
English
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720
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