Architecture and the crisis of modern science /
Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez-Gómez. - x, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science -- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism.
0262160919 9780262160919
82018010
Architecture--History--Europe--18th century.
Functionalism (Architecture)--Europe
Architecture--Philosophy
Architecture--Europe--17th century.
NA956 / .P413 1983
720.940903
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez-Gómez. - x, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science -- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism.
0262160919 9780262160919
82018010
Architecture--History--Europe--18th century.
Functionalism (Architecture)--Europe
Architecture--Philosophy
Architecture--Europe--17th century.
NA956 / .P413 1983
720.940903