Im Seok-jae: Climbing the Staircase Civilization: Ancient Renaissance

We're climbing up the stairs of Western civilization, which we meet through the history of the staircases. The staircase means "a vertical means of movement of steps that connect two different heights.". Stairs are the result of human religion, mental function. The best historian in Korea, Limsuk, uses Western architecture as the basis for the flow of time, the concept of the subject, to look into the common ground between the great staircases of Western architecture and the ones that surround us, and to find a humane view of the daily life on the staircases that are forming around us. This book is one of the two Western terraces. It deals with the time of the beginning of the staircase through the ancient period and through the Renaissance. And when we focused on people, for whatever purpose, we started with the idea of a vertical footing, depending on the need to reach on top of our heads. From the point of view, you're living in an anti-climate condition called slope, and you naturally have stairs that are built along the path of the person. Then, as a real civilization begins, the staircase follows the civilization and goes through the formalization process. The history of these formalizations has many symbolic meanings representing each period. In ancient times, the purpose of reaching the sky was great. In the Greek-Roman era, the ground was dominated by practicality for practical purposes. In the Middle Ages, war and Christianity led to the staircases. While war was a concrete result of the spiral staircase, Christianity was metaphorically symbolic of Jacob's concept of ladders. At the time of the Renaissance, there was a writerism. The first individual architect to have a concept of his work defined the staircase.

Korean title: 계단 문명을 오르다: 고대 르네상스

Korean author: 임석재

Korean publisher: 휴머니스트

ISBN-13: 9788958622888