NDLI: Design and Tracing of Post-Byzantine Churches in the Florina Area, Northwestern Greece

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Author	Oikomou, Aineias
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This paper constitutes an effort to investigate the application of specific design and constructional tracing in post-Byzantine churches situated in northwestern Greece, mainly in the wider area of the town of Florina and the Prespa Lakes, covering a period from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Firstly, a review of the relevant previous studies concerning the investigation of proportions and constructional tracing in Byzantine churches is presented. Secondly, a brief analysis of the metric systems of the Byzantine and the Ottoman period is given in order to define the applied modules. Furthermore, the typology of post-Byzantine churches is analysed. The main part of the paper includes the investigation of the constructional grid and the proportions in several plan drawings, in combination with the use of triangular tracing (right triangles). The analysis is also extended to façades and sections, in order to demonstrate the standardisation of the construction. Apart from the above, the application of the golden section in some examples is also examined. Finally, conclusions are drawn concerning the design and application of models and tracing on the construction of post-Byzantine churches.
Starting Page	495
Ending Page	515
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15905896
Journal	Nexus Network Journal
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15224600
Language	English
Publisher	SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Publisher Date	2012-09-25
Publisher Place	Basel
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	architect’s cubit Byzantine foot design analysis Florina area northwestern Greece post-Byzantine period single-nave church three-aisled basilica structural systems symbolism ad quadratum ad triangulum diagonals geometry geometric systems golden section harmonic proportions irrational numbers measuring systems module proportion proportional systems symmetry History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Mathematics Popular Science History
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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