This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid.
Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle,...
This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as fo...
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this boo...
This documentary history records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across our contemporary disciplinarian and institutional divisions, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past.
This documentary history records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across our contemporary disciplinarian and insti...
Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a Third Ecology emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, star buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated,...
Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human histo...
