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- Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Consideration
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Leiden University Press
summary
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 symbolic numbers, to sly manipulations of geometry and numbers that required privileged knowledge and arithmetical calculations to access. Since the origins of architectural history, proportional systems have served as objects of belief and modes of iconographical communication. Whether they are capable of fulfilling more tangible functions remains a matter of debate today, but as the contributors to this volume show, these ancient and diverse belief systems continue to infiltrate architectural thinking in subtle and sometimes surprising ways today.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 9-10
- Part I Introduction
- Two Kinds of Proportion
- pp. 13-58
- Part II Thinking and Seeing Proportion
- Subjective Proportions
- pp. 91-112
- Were Early Modern Architects Neoplatonists?
- pp. 113-128
- Plotting Gothic
- pp. 129-146
- Part III Designing with Proportions
- Proportion and Building Material
- pp. 183-198
- Scamozzi’s Orders and Proportions
- pp. 233-248
- The Matrix Regained
- pp. 295-316
- Part IV New Approaches to Well-Known Sources
- Divining Proportions in the Information Age
- pp. 347-360
- Decoding the Pantheon Columns
- pp. 361-380
- Leonardo da Vinci:
- pp. 381-396
- Philibert de L’Orme’s Divine Proportions
- pp. 397-414
- An old problem?
- pp. 415-434
- Part V Twentieth-Century Perspectives
- Between Looking and Making
- pp. 463-492
- Rudolph Wittkower versus Le Corbusier
- pp. 493-510
- Part VI Conclusion
Additional Information
ISBN
9789400602878
Related ISBN(s)
9789087282776
MARC Record
OCLC
1082876060
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2019