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Proportional systems in the history of architecture : a critical reconsideration /
Prior to the advent of modern structural engineering, architects and builders used proportional systems to imbue their works with a general condition of order that was integral to notions of beauty and structural stability. These mostly invisible intellectual frameworks ranged from simple grids and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Leiden, Netherlands] :
Leiden University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction. Two kinds of proportion / Matthew A. Cohen
- part II. Thinking and seeing proportion. 2 Canons of proportion and the laws of nature : observations on a permanent and unresolved conflict / Mario Curti
- The composto ordinato of Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana : proportion or anthropomorphy? / Caroline van Eck
- Subjective proportions : 18th-century interpretations of Paestum's "disproportion" / Sigrid de Jong
- Were early modern architects Neoplatonists? The Case of François Blondel / Anthony Gerbino
- Plotting Gothic : a paradox / Stephen Murray
- To build proportions in time, or tie knots in space? A reassessment of the Renaissance turn in architectural proportions / Marvin Trachtenberg
- part III. Designing with proportion. 1, 2, 3, 6 : Early Gothic architecture and perfect numbers / Elizabeth den Hartog
- Proportion and building material or theory versus practice in the determination of the module / Lex Bosman
- Approaches to architectural proportion and the "poor old Parthenon" / Mark Wilson Jones
- Scamozzi's orders and proportions : an end to illusions or a visionary harbinger? / Franco Barbieri
- Early modern Netherlandish artists on proportion in architecture or "de questien der Simmetrien met redene der Geometrien" / Krista De Jonge
- Proportional design systems in 17th-century Holland / Konrad Ottenheym
- The matrix regained : reflections on the use of the grid in the architectural theories of Nicolaus Goldmann and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand / Jeroen Goudeau
- Dynamic unfolding and the conventions of procedure : geometric proportioning strategies in Gothic architectural design / Robert Bork
- part IV. New approaches to well-known sources. Divining proportions in the information age / Andrew Tallon
- Decoding the Pantheon columns / Gerd Grasshoff and Christian Berndt
- Leonardo da Vinci : the proportions of the drawings of sacred buildings in Ms. B, Institut de France / Francesco P. Di Teodoro
- Philibert de L'Orme's divine proportions and the composition of the Premier tome de l'architecture / Sara Galletti
- An old problem? Claude Perrault's views on beauty and proportion in architecture and French aesthetic theory / Maarten Delbeke
- part V. Twentieth-century perspectives. Le Corbusier's Modulor and the debate on proportion in France / Jean-Louis Cohen
- Between looking and making : unravelling Dom Hans van der Laan's plastic number / Caroline Voet
- Rudolph Wittkower versus Le Corbusier : a matter of proportion / Francesco Benelli
- Proportional systems in the history of architecture : a conversation with James S. Ackerman / conducted and edited by Matthew A. Cohen
- part VI. Conclusion. Ten principles for the study of proportional systems in the history of architecture / Matthew A. Cohen.