Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Perez-Gomez
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 1983. Cambridge :Description: x, 400 pISBN: - 9780262660556
- 720.1 PER-A
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| 720.1 PAL-E Eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses | 720.1 PAR-H Hindu notions of space making / | 720.1 PAT Patterns of architecture / | 720.1 PER-A Architecture and the crisis of modern science / | 720.1 PHE Phenomenologies of the city : | 720.1 POE Poetics in architecture / | 720.1 POE-A Architectural theory of modernism : |
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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