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Volker Hoffmann Nikolaos Theocharis Francine Giese-Vögeli University of Berne Switzerland |
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Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul May 27 - July 03 / 2005 Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin November 28 - December 10 / 2005 Istituto Svizzero di Roma April 20 - May 18 / 2006 Zürich / Switzerland June 16 - June 30 / 2006 Universität Bern Hauptgebäude / Hochschulstrasse 4 Bern / Switzerland June 3 - June 5 / 2008 Zappeion Megaron June 7 - July.. / 2008 Constantinopolitan Centre Kalithea Athens / Greece |
Dipl.-Ing. Nikolaos Theocharis Dr. Francine Giese-Vögeli Universität Bern Institut für Kunstgeschichte Hodlerstrasse 8 CH-3011 Bern Tel. 0041 31 631 4741 Fax 0041 31 631 8669 volker.hoffmann@ikg.unibe.ch theocharis@ikg.unibe.ch francine.giese@ikg.unibe.ch Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Lefèvre Dr. Claudia Bührig Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Wilhelmstrasse 44 D-10117 Berlin Tel. 049 30 22667-103 Tel. 049 30 22667-146 Fax 049 30 22667-299 wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de buehrig@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Prof.Dr.Christoph Riedweg Istituto Svizzero di Roma Via Ludovisi 48 I-00187 Roma Tel. 039 06 481 42 34 Fax 039 06 420 12 469 http://www.istitutosvizzero.it Philippe Carrard Eidgenössische Technische Hoch- schule Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Tech- nology Zurich) Departement Architektur ETH Hönggerberg HIL C75 CH 8093 Zürich Tel. 0041 44 633 29 36 Fax 0041 44 633 10 68 ausstellungen@gta.arch.ethz.ch http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch Prof.Dr.Nikolaos Uzunoglo Athens nnap@otenet.gr |
Justinian I as a cathedral and state church as well. Sultan Mehmet Fatih turned it 1453 into the main mosque of the Ottoman world. President Kemal Atatürk decided 1934 to end the various claims by converting the building into a museum. In the year 558 the first dome collapsed and was replaced by the much higher, still existing dome. No models, sketches or drawings have been preserved. Additionally, the severe deformations because of earthquakes made it difficult to draw conclusions about the basic concept of the geometrical design, judging by the actual shape. Professor Hoffmann and his collaborators started their ambitious project in the year 2002: The whole interior of the building and some parts outside were measured by a Cyrax laserscanner. From these three-dimensional data the ground-plan was extracted and compared with older measurements by conventional instruments. Because of the extraordinarily convincing match of both plans the next phase was the interpretation - not only in 2D but also in 3D. Professor Hoffmann found a single basic principle, the so-called analemma: a pair of squares with edge lengths 1.00 and 1.06. It turned out that the whole design - which is rather complex - can be derived from the analemma by using the most simple tools: ruler and compass. The exhibition consists of 42 color posters 700 x 1000 mm, assembled on a light- weight self-sufficient display system. Istanbul: texts in German and Turkish Berlin: texts in German and Turkish Rome: texts in German and Italian Zürich: texts in German and Italian Bern: texts in German and Italian Athens: texts in German and Greek A catalogue which contains all posters and the text in German, Turkish, English and French is available: Der geometrische Entwurf der Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Bilder einer Ausstellung / Herausgegeben von Volker Hoffmann Peter Lang AG / Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften Moosstrasse 1 / CH-2542 Pieterlen / info@peterlang.com / www.peterlang.net sFr 39.00 / Euro 26.90 / Pound 17.60 / US$ 29.95 / plus shipping Two typical color pages (a compressed PDF, 480 kBytes) are shown here Contributions by Gernot Hoffmann, University of Applied Sciences in Emden: Display design, poster printing, PDF/X production for the catalogue, website. Digital print of the posters (A4) in German and another language on demand. Pressemitteilung (German) here Photos of the exhibition in Rome here Leica Geosystems AG: Deciphering the'Eighth Wonder of the World' Report 52 |