Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: x, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262160919
- 9780262160919
- Génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura. English
- 720.940903
- NA956 .P413 1983
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720.94 PEV An outline of European architecture / | 720.94 PEV An outline of European architecture / | 720.94 TRA Transfer : erkennen und bewirken ; Bilder und Worte ; Austausch und Gleichgewicht ; Aggregate des Entwurfs ; Bild der Energie ; Phasen des Objekts / | 720.940903 PER Architecture and the crisis of modern science / | 720.940904 CON Contemporary European architects. | 720.940904 CON Contemporary European architects. | 720.940904 CON Contemporary European architects. |
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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