Main entry:

Gelernter, Mark, 1951-

Title & Author:

Sources of architectural form : a critical history of western design theory / Mark Gelernter.

Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1995.

Description:

xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-300) and index.
1. Introduction. The central problem of design theory. Theories of form. A paradox in western theories of design. The subject-object problem -- 2. The ancient world. The origins of design theory and education. The Greek revolution in philosophy. Greek art and architecture theory. Vitruvius -- 3. The Middle Ages. Shift from the secular to the divine. Medieval art and architecture theory. Scholasticism. Education in the guilds and universities -- 4. The Renaissance. The revival of ancient concepts. Art theory in the High Renaissance. The Mannerist extremes. The new art academies. The rise of Positivist science -- 5. The Baroque. The Baroque dualities. Rationalism and the priority of reason. Empiricism and the priority of sense. Art and architecture theory and the academies -- 6. The Enlightenment. Revolutionary foundations of the modern world. Positivism and the new deterministic sciences of man. The Romantic rebellion. Neoclassicism and the academies. Immanuel Kant and the synthesis of subject and object -- 7. The nineteenth century. Philosophical relativism and artistic eclecticism. Classicism and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. German Idealism, Romanticism, and the Gothic Revival. Positivism and artistic determinism. The shift to abstraction in art -- 8. The twentieth century (I). The reaction to relativism in philosophy. The opposed sources of architectural form. The opposed sources of artistic form. The Bauhaus conflation. The Modern Movement -- 9. The twentieth century (II). Late Modernism. Positivism and environmental design. Structuralism. Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism.
Based on a thesis (doctoral)--Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.

Summary:

Provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It looks at how the architect generates architectural form in order to explain a number of issues, including the origins of style, the persistence of tradition and the role of genius.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0719041287 (hardback)
9780719041280 (hardback)
0719041295 (pbk.)
9780719041297 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architectural design History.
Design architectural Histoire.
Architectural design.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Inspiratie.
Design architectural.
Architecture History

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105309
Call No.: ID NA2750.G4; ID:94-B2173
Status: Available