TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perez-Gomez, Alberto
TI  - Architecture and the crisis of modern science
SN  - 9780262660556
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press
KW  - AR
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Theories
KW  - 1625-1850
N1  - 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
ER  -