Architecture and the crisis of modern science /
Perez-Gomez, Alberto
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Perez-Gomez - Cambridge : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 1983. - x, 400 p.
Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Number and Architectural proportion in the Seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries-- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science --Geometry and Architecture meaning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Geometry and number as technical instruments in early modern architecture-- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Geometry, number and Technology-- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism.
9780262660556
AR
Architecture --Philosophy--History
Architecture--Theories --1625-1850
Architecture--Philosophy
720.1 / PER-A
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Perez-Gomez - Cambridge : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 1983. - x, 400 p.
Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Number and Architectural proportion in the Seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries-- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science --Geometry and Architecture meaning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Geometry and number as technical instruments in early modern architecture-- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Geometry, number and Technology-- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism.
9780262660556
AR
Architecture --Philosophy--History
Architecture--Theories --1625-1850
Architecture--Philosophy
720.1 / PER-A