Architectonics of humanism : essays on number in architecture / Lionel March.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chichester : Academy Editions, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xii, 284 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0471977543
- 9780471977544
- 720.1
- NA2760. M35 1998
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.1 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A107408B |
Companion vol. to: Architectural principles in the age of humanism / Rudolf Wittkower.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- A. Ground -- I. Classical Arithmetic -- II. Euclidean Arithmetic -- III. Cosmogonic Arithmetic -- IIII. Gendered Number -- V. Ethical Number -- VI. Shapeful Number -- VII. Theological Number -- VIII. Occult Number -- VIIII. Playful Number -- X. Right Triangular Number -- XI. Rational Proportion -- XII. Inexpressible Proportion -- XIII. Empowered Proportion -- XIIII. Proportionality -- XV. Composite Proportion -- XVI. Euclidean Regular Figures -- XVII. Scales of Proportion -- XVIII. Prisoners of Number -- B. Foundation -- XVIIII. Judaic Heritage -- XX. Greek Experience -- XXI. Roman Wonders -- XXII. Christian Works -- C. Edifice -- XXIII. Centralized Design -- XXIIII. Leon Battista Alberti -- XXV. Sebastiano Serlio -- XXVI. Andrea Palladio -- Epilogue -- App. 1. Canons of Proportion -- App. 2. Ratios Used in Plans by Palladio: Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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