Pérez Gómez, Alberto,  1949- <br/><br/>
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / 
Alberto Pérez-Gómez. 
 - x, 400 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262160919 9780262160919 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>82018010 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--History--Europe--18th century.<br/>Functionalism (Architecture)--Europe<br/>Architecture--Philosophy<br/>Architecture--Europe--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA956  / .P413 1983 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.940903