The contradiction between form and function in architecture / John Shannon Hendrix.

Main entry:

Hendrix, John Shannon.

Title & Author:

The contradiction between form and function in architecture / John Shannon Hendrix.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

vii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
Ancient and classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome -- Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic -- Renaissance and Baroque: architectural theory and form -- Enlightenment and idealism -- Modernism: structural rationalism to structural linguistics -- Postmodernism: complexity and contradiction, cardboard architecture, late capitalism, deconstructivism -- Bioconstructivism: topological theory.

Summary:

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.

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E-book - Full text from Dawsonera. To print, you will need to select one page at a time

ISBN:

9780415639132 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415639131 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415639149 (pb ; alk. paper)
041563914X (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780203070932
0203070933
9780203070932

Subject:

Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Funktion
Form (Aesthetics)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290624
Call No.: BIB 233756
Status: Available

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