Proportion : Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Richard Padovan

ISBN 10: 0419227806 / ISBN 13: 9780419227809

Editore: Taylor & Francis, 1999

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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. Codice articolo 9780419227809

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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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Padovan, Richard

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Titolo: Proportion : Science, Philosophy, ...
Casa editrice: Taylor & Francis
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu