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Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Perez-Gomez

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 1983. Cambridge :Description: x, 400 pISBN:
  • 9780262660556
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 PER-A
Contents:
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.
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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.

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