Author: Gabriela Lehmann-CarliPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : de
Pages : 740
Book Description
Russische Aufklärungsrezeption im Kontext offizieller Bildungskonzepte (1700-1825)
Author: Gabriela Lehmann-CarliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : de
Pages : 740
Book Description
Précis of the Lectures on Architecture
Author: Jean-Nicolas-Louis DurandPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365803
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Nouveau Système De Lecture
Author: Jean Baptiste MaudruPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 134
Book Description
Nouveau Système De Lecture
Author: Jean Baptiste MaudruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 266
Book Description
Nouveau système de lecture applicable à toutes les langues
Author: Jean-Baptiste MaudruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 202
Book Description
J.N.L. Durand (1760-1834)
Author: Sergio VillariPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : fr
Pages : 188
Book Description
Nouveau Système De Lecture
Author: Jean-Baptiste MaudruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 68
Book Description
Nouveau système de lecture applicable à toutes les langues
Author: Jean-Baptiste MaudruPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 238
Book Description
Nouveau système de lecture applicable à toutes les langues
Author: Jean-Baptiste MaudruArchitecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
Author: Alberto Perez-GomezPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0262660555
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Throughout, it relates the major architectural treatises of successive generations to the larger culture and the writings of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. The book leads the reader through the controversy that was generated by Claude Perrault in the seventeenth century. His writings began to cast doubt on the absolute aesthetic value of the classical orders and the "perfect" proportions that were architecture's legacy from Pythagorean times. Thus the once immutable "invisible" system lost its special status forever. The book focuses in particular on eighteenth-century developments in the science of mechanics and emerging techniques in structural analysis which slowly entered the architectural treatises and found their way into practice, often by way of civil and military engineers. And by the nineteenth century, the book notes, even architectural rendering and drawing were radically changed through the introduction of new descriptive and projective geometries. Tracing these fundamental changes in architectural intentions, Pérez-Gómez challenges many popular misconceptions about the theory and history of modern architecture. At the same time, he suggests an intangible loss, that of a culture's power to express through a building its total mathematical, mystical, and magical world-view.