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Proportion : science, philosophy, architecture / Richard Padovan.

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1999Description: xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0419227806
  • 9780419227809
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 21
LOC classification:
  • NA2760 .P34 1999
Contents:
The harmony of the world made manifest in Form and Number -- Abstraction and empathy -- Unit and multiplier -- The house as model for the universe -- The proportions of the Parthenon -- Plato: order out of chaos -- Aristotle: change, continuity and the unit -- Euclid: the golden section and the five regular solids -- Vitruvius -- Gothis proportions -- Renaissance architecture -- Renaissance cosmology -- The world as a machine -- Turning from the outer to the inner world -- The golden section and the golden module -- Knowing by not knowing -- Where do we go from here?.
Summary: "This book provides a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work, Le Corbusier and Van der Laan, and ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture."--Publisher description.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.1 PAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A425694B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-382) and index.

The harmony of the world made manifest in Form and Number -- Abstraction and empathy -- Unit and multiplier -- The house as model for the universe -- The proportions of the Parthenon -- Plato: order out of chaos -- Aristotle: change, continuity and the unit -- Euclid: the golden section and the five regular solids -- Vitruvius -- Gothis proportions -- Renaissance architecture -- Renaissance cosmology -- The world as a machine -- Turning from the outer to the inner world -- The golden section and the golden module -- Knowing by not knowing -- Where do we go from here?.

"This book provides a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work, Le Corbusier and Van der Laan, and ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture."--Publisher description.

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