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Architectonics of humanism : essays on number in architecture / Lionel March.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chichester : Academy Editions, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xii, 284 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0471977543
  • 9780471977544
Related works:
  • Augmentation of (work): Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural principles in the age of humanism
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1
LOC classification:
  • NA2760. M35 1998
Contents:
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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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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