Composition, non-composition : architecture and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jacques Lucan.

Main entry:

Lucan, Jacques.

Title & Author:

Composition, non-composition : architecture and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jacques Lucan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Lausanne, Switzerland : EPFL Press ; Abingdon, Oxford : Routledge, c2012.

Description:

601 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Essays in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-600) and index.
Distribution, disposition, composition -- "Procedure to be followed in the composition of any project." -- Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand -- Symmetrical suites and interior landscapes -- To compose an ensemble -- Compositional hierarchy and intelligibility -- The ateliers -- Les concours -- Architectural theory -- A theory of la piece -- Julien Guadet -- Implicit principles -- The end of the ecole des beaux-arts system -- The american deviation -- Systems of architecture -- The architectural organism -- Eugene Viollet-le-Duc -- Modern construction -- composition or growth -- Composition and juxtaposition -- Composition and picturesque -- Formal, informal -- Composition and parcours -- Auguste Choisy and the greek picturesque -- Convex space -- le corbusier and the free plan -- The enclosure breached -- space and time -- Painting and architecture -- le corbusier: in the defense of composition -- Collage and assemblage -- composition or construction -- Grid and neutrality -- Aggregative structures and the non-plan -- The room and beyond -- Louis I. Kahn -- Concacity and convexity, once again -- Formalism and linguistic paradigm -- Process and program versus composition -- Rem Koolhaas -- Operation versus composition -- unitary form and interdependence of elements.

ISBN:

9782940222377 (EPFL Press)
2940222371 (EPFL Press)
9780415641111 (Routledge)
041564111X (Routledge)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 19th century History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century History.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 19e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 19th century
Architecture, Modern 20th century

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Essays in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286504
Call No.: BIB 226878
Status: Available

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