Proportion

Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture
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Author: Richard Padovan ISBN: 9781135811105
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: September 11, 2002
Imprint: Taylor & Francis Language: English
Author: Richard Padovan
ISBN: 9781135811105
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: September 11, 2002
Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Language: English

This handbook provides readers with 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 main body of 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. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.

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This handbook provides readers with 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 main body of 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. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.

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