TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pérez Gómez,Alberto
TI  - Architecture and the crisis of modern science
SN  - 0262160919
AV  - NA956 .P413 1983
U1  - 720.940903 
PY  - 1983///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Functionalism (Architecture)
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - 17th century
N1  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05875
ER  -