Main entry:

Bass, Steve, 1947- author.

Title & Author:

Beauty, memory, unity : a theory of proportion in architecture and design / Steve Bass.

Publication:

Hudson, NY : Lindisfarne Books ; [New York, NY] : Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xii, 355 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm

Series:

Classical America series on art and architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-348) and index.
Foreword / Keith Critchlow -- Introduction -- I. The Search for the beautiful : Position of proportion -- Number and beauty -- Pythagoras and qualitative number -- Psyche -- Remebrance and the journey of the soul -- Plotinus on beauty -- Beauty and the good -- Diotima's lecture on beauty -- The liberal arts : A pythagorean-based creation myth -- Oneness: the monad -- Twoness: the dyad -- Threeness: the triad -- Fourness: the tetrad -- Fiveness: the pentad -- The pentad and phi -- The root powers -- The decade -- The teraktys -- The platonic lambda -- Number, geometry, music -- Ration, proportion, logos -- Astronomy -- Looking up and down -- II. Number harmony design : Introduction -- A geometrical creation story -- The musical octave -- A tetrastyle portico -- An ontogeny of the root powers -- Properties of the root rectangles -- The golden section -- Squaring the circle -- A tetrastyle portico -- Creating a Ø scale -- Tetrastyle portico[s] -- Hexastyle portico[s] ; Octastyle portico[s] -- The classical order and canon of 19 -- The Doric capital -- The Ionic capital -- The Corinthian capital -- Entablatures of the three principal orders -- Pediments -- Superposition -- Arcades -- Palladio's harmonic ratios for rooms -- Harmonic volumes of Robert Morris -- An expansion of the tetrastyle -- An expansion of the hexastyle -- The "pillar" of Egypt -- Vertical expansion -- Geometric rectangles of Hambidge -- Division of the frame -- III. Proportion in practice : Introduction -- Egypt -- Greece -- Rome I: Vitruvius -- Rome II -- The medieval era -- Early Renaissance -- Late Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- IV. The present moment.

ISBN:

9781584209676 (paperback)
1584209674 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Proportion (Anthropometry) in art.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Proportions (Anthropométrie) dans l'art.

Added entries:

Classical America series in art and architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317679
Call No.: 317679
Copy: 1
Status: Available