Typological investigation of mill buildings in Greece
dc.contributor.author
Demiri, Konstantina G.
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dc.date.accessioned
2013-06-26T12:49:46Z
dc.date.available
2013-06-26T12:49:46Z
dc.date.issued
1986
dc.description.abstract
The thesis is concerned with the study of the evolution of
mill buildings in Greece from the end of the nineteenth
century using a typological approach. It is also a case-study
in development and evaluation of the use of the typological
method of analysis in application to a single building class.
Mills, as rather ordinary utilitarian buildings, can only be
subjected to conventional stylistic analysis with great difficulty
because their designers are unknown or, if known, in
most cases do not adhere to any known architectural school
of thought, and because most of the buildings are individually
of no special stylistic or architectural intent.
The description of a sample of 57 mills according to their
formal language, constructional system and articulation of
spaces shows the inadequacy of the conventional descriptive
approach in handling the large number of cases and in
making inductive generalizations concerning their relationships,
origins and meanings. An analysis of the evolution of
the uses of typology in architecture leads to a clarification
of the conceptual framework of the typological approach. The
meaning of type is defined and type is distinguished from
class.
A procedure is developed for the identification of the types
of a set of buildings. The sample of the 57 mills is typologically
analysed and seven types are identified. The interpretation
of the types is made using factors which are either
extrinsic to design (socioeconomic conditions, the nature of
the production process, environmental conditions, legislation,
technical and material means of construction), or intrinsic
to them and related to architectural ideology.
The case-study of the sample of mill buildings provides
answers to a number of theoretical issues regarding the
ontogeny of types and the potential of typological analysis
as a descriptive tool in architecture.
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dc.identifier.other
370908
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6984
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
University of Edinburgh
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dc.subject
Architecture
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dc.title
Typological investigation of mill buildings in Greece
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dc.title.alternative
A typological investigation of mill buildings in Greece
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dc.type.qualificationname
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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