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Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: x, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262160919
  • 9780262160919
Uniform titles:
  • Génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.940903
LOC classification:
  • NA956 .P413 1983
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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