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9780419227809

Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780419227809

  • ISBN10:

    0419227806

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-11-02
  • Publisher: Taylor & Franci

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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.

Author Biography

Richard Padovan lectures at the University of Bath.

Table of 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 Artchitecture
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?
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