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Jean-Marcel Humbert and Clifford Price, eds. Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture. In Encounters with Ancient Egypt series. London: UCL Press, 2003. Distributed by Cavendish Publishing, do International Specialized Book Services, 5824 NE Hassalo St., Portland, Ore. 97213-3444. xxii + 318 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $47.50. Paper.
Taking the monuments of ancient Egypt as a source of inspiration, architects living in the modern era have often incorporated forms derived from the pharaonic past into their own work. Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture investigates the phenomenon of such adaptations, probing the reasons for it and surveying examples around the world. This volume, with fifteen essays and nineteen contributors, focuses on works dating from the eighteenth century to the present. The title links Imhotep, architect of Egypt's first pyramid, with later builders who have come under ancient Egypt's spell. Imhotep himself would be astonished at some of the later manifestations of pharaonic forms throughout the world: mini-pyramids as garden ornaments and ice houses;...
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