Proportional Systems In The History Of Architecture
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Proportional Systems In The History Of Architecture
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Author : Matthew A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2018
Proportional Systems In The History Of Architecture written by Matthew A. Cohen and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture categories.
In this collection of original essays, twenty-five leading scholars reconsider the long history of proportional systems across numerous periods and places, and from diverse methodological approaches including archival exploration, advanced laser scanning, and more. 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 their intertwined 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, for this ancient and diverse belief system continues to infiltrate architectural thinking in subtle and sometimes surprising ways.
Proportional Systems In The History Of Architecture
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Author : Matthew A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Proportional Systems In The History Of Architecture written by Matthew A. Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Proportions And Cognition In Architecture And Urban Design
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Author : Benjamin Dillenburger
language : en
Publisher: Dietrich Reimer
Release Date : 2019
Proportions And Cognition In Architecture And Urban Design written by Benjamin Dillenburger and has been published by Dietrich Reimer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Architecture categories.
In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design, practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were associated, how they were introduced into design, and how contemporary practice builds upon this tradition-or allows new interpretations to unfold.
Proportion
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Author : Richard Padovan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Proportion written by Richard Padovan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Architecture categories.
This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.
Hans Van Der Laan S Instruments Of Thought
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Author : TIZIANA. PROIETTI
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2024-07-23
Hans Van Der Laan S Instruments Of Thought written by TIZIANA. PROIETTI and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the work of Dutch Benedictine monk and architect, Hans van der Laan, and provides a guide to applying his theory to contemporary design practice.
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Cybernetics
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Author : Christopher Hight
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-12-12
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Cybernetics written by Christopher Hight and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-12 with Architecture categories.
A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies. The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, especially in attempts to reformulate architecture’s relationship to humanism, modernism and technology. Challenging some concepts and categories of architectural history and situates current debates within a broader cultural and technological context, Hight makes complex ideas easily accessible. Extensively illustrated and written without academic jargon for an informed but non-specialized architectural audience, this book elucidates the often obscure debates of avant-garde architectural discourse and design, while demonstrating how these debates have affected everyday places and concepts of architecture. As a result, it will appeal to professional architects, academics and students, combining as it does an insightful introduction to the fundamental issues of architectural history and theory over the past fifty years with entirely new formulations of what that history is and means.
Beyond Beauty
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Author : Matthew A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Release Date : 2013
Beyond Beauty written by Matthew A. Cohen and has been published by Mitchell Beazley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
The magic of early Renaissance architecture. The notion that numerical proportional systems contribute to the serene, orderly appearance of the basilica of San Lorenzo has long stood as a virtual axiom of architectural history. In this book, Cohen challenges this and many other long-standing preconceptions about proportional systems in the history of architecture. Using Brunelleschi's basilicas of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito as case studies, the author presents a detailed analysis of his comprehensive measurements of these buildings, which he recorded from scaffolding, meticulous observations of the built fabric, and a variety of documentary sources. This book presents a rigorous new approach to an important but little studied area of architectural history and is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval and Renaissance architecture.
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Humanism
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Author : Rudolf Wittkower
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1971
Architectural Principles In The Age Of Humanism written by Rudolf Wittkower and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Architecture categories.
Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.
Visual Culture And Mathematics In The Early Modern Period
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Author : Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Visual Culture And Mathematics In The Early Modern Period written by Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Art categories.
During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. This volume makes its contribution by offering new interdisciplinary approaches that not only investigate perspective but also examine how mathematics enriched aesthetic theory and the human mind. The contributors explore the portrayal of mathematical activity and mathematicians as well as their ideas and instruments, how artists displayed their mathematical skills and the choices visual artists made between geometry and arithmetic, as well as Euclid’s impact on drawing, artistic practice and theory. These chapters cover a broad geographical area that includes Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, France and England. The artists, philosophers and mathematicians whose work is discussed include Leon Battista Alberti, Nicholas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco di Giorgio, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, as well as Michelangelo, Galileo, Piero della Francesca, Girard Desargues, William Hogarth, Albrecht Dürer, Luca Pacioli and Raphael.
The Architectonic Of Philosophy
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Author : Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Architectonic Of Philosophy written by Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
"Whereas the history of philosophy defines metaphysics as asking the question 'What is Being?'; here is asked 'Where is Being?' What is to be analyzed is indeed part of the tradition of metaphysics to inquire about Being qua being, but here the inquiry is into its structure, its position within the ontological whole. The concept of the 'architectonic' is borrowed from Kant ... In this work, three philosophical structures are chosen for a more extensive examination: the three 'architectonics' are that of Plato's Chora, Aristoteles' continuum, and finally Leibniz's labyrinth"--Back cover.