Art and Architecture of the Late Middle Ages: 1350 to the Advent of the Renaissance

Art and Architecture of the Late Middle Ages: 1350 to the Advent of the Renaissance

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Published by Omega Books, 1988, hardcover, illustrated,index, 232 pages, 25.5 cms x 31.6 cms, condition: as new.

Traces the growth and characteristics of medieval art and architecture, focusing attention on the individual Gothic styles that evolved throughout Europe,

The author, SWAAN was born in South Africa, Swaan earned two degrees in architecture at Wits University and then worked in Johannesburg.

In 1959 he was recorded as resident at 'Dunrobin', 44 Joel Road, Berea, Johannesburg, member of the TIA, in the employ of Harold H LE ROITH & Partners of Washington  House, 68a Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. After he studied at Yale University. 

Clive Chipkin reminisces on those who influenced him:
"There was a third category of architects like Wim SWAAN and Maurice KAPLAN (a neighbour of Wibo ZWART) who were seduced not only by Brazil but by the pictorial qualities of indigenous homesteads, as re-discovered by Barrie BIERMANN and Betty SPENCE in their seminal portrayal of Ndebele architecture in the Architectural Review (1954), ..."

SWAAN enjoyed distinguished dual careers, designing many important medical facilities and had 18 books published on the subject of art and architecture, for which he took the photographs.


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