The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415639149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

John Hendrix

Opis

This text illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. Historical examples are given from ancient, classical, Islamic, Christian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, and Neoclassical architecture, and from movements in the 20th century to the present.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Ancient and Classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome 2. Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic 3. Renaissance and Baroque: Architectural Theory and Form 4. Enlightenment and Idealism 5. Modernism: Structural Rationalism to Structural Linguistics 6. Postmodernism: Complexity and Contradiction 7. Bioconstructivism: Topological Theory 

O autorze

John Shannon Hendrix is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University and at Rhode Island School of Design, USA.