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Providing an important exploration on how shadows have been used for a variety of purposes (religious, psychological, spatial), Kite looks at architecture from the Baroque, through 19th-century Gothic revival, to early and late modernity ... This book abounds with black-and-white illustrations supporting and highlighting the nuances of Kite's ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *

A meticulously researched, sensitive and intellectually stimulating enquiry into architecture’s darker side. * The Burlington Magazine * Shadow-Makers is a thoroughly enjoyable read, a dense, evocative, and insightful reminder of qualities essential to the physical and intellectual enjoyment of architecture. -- Elizabeth Musgrave * Architectural Theory Review * Providing an important exploration on how shadows have been used for a variety of purposes (religious, psychological, spatial), Kite looks at architecture from the Baroque, through 19th-century Gothic revival, to early and late modernity … This book abounds with black-and-white illustrations supporting and highlighting the nuances of Kite's ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE * Kite gathers an interesting ensemble of architects and architectonic works ... [he] creates a rich picture of the subject, almost like a mosaic. * Arkkitehti * Kite’s is a searching mind – genuinely curious, fascinated and enthusiastic; attuned to the allegorical values of tectonics ... [Shadow-Makers is] a network of ideas drawn from politics, aesthetics, philosophy and cultural history, but always pivoting on the central narrative of architectonics wrought from darkness, shadow and shade. * Fabrications *

Providing an important exploration on how shadows have been used for a variety of purposes (religious, psychological, spatial), Kite looks at architecture from the Baroque, through 19th-century Gothic revival, to early and late modernity ... This book abounds with black-and-white illustrations supporting and highlighting the nuances of Kite's ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE * Kite gathers an interesting ensemble of architects and architectonic works ... [he] creates a rich picture of the subject, almost like a mosaic. * Arkkitehti *

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Stephen Kite is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include Building Ruskin’s Italy: Watching Architecture (2012), Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (2009), and An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin).

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