Title & Author:

Perspective, projections, and design : technologies of architectural representation / edited by Mario Carpo and Frédérique Lemerle.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Description:

xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The theory and practice of perspective in Vitruvius's 'De architectura' / Pierre Gros -- Geometries of Phàntasma / Bernard Cache -- Computer vision and painters' visions in Italian and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth century / Martin Kemp and Antonio Criminisi -- Alberti's media lab / Mario Carpo -- Constructing perspective in sixteenth-century Nuremberg / Jeanne Peiffer -- Sebastiano Serlio prospettico : stages in his artistic itinerary during the 1520s / Sabine Frommel -- Sebastiano Serlio : placing perspective at the service of architects / Pietro Roccasecca -- Sophisticated geometry, Baroque composition / Philippe Potié -- "The eye of the sun" : Galileo and Pietro Accolti on orthographic projection / Filippo Camerota -- Fortification and military perspective in seventeenth-century France / Émilie d'Orgeix -- Pictorial versus intellectual representation : teaching perspective to architectural students at the École des Beaux-Art in Paris (1824-1900) / Alice Thomine-Berrada -- From rationality to utopia : Auguste Choisy and axonometric projection / Thierry Mandoul -- Project and projections : some advantages of the principle of opacity / Daniel Estévez and Gérard Tiné -- Architectural embodiment : prosthetics and parasites / Georges Teyssot.

Summary:

The essays selected for this text discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge, and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780415402040 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415402042 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415402064 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415402069 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Literaturgruppe Perspektive
Perspective.
Architectural drawing.
Architectural design.
Dessin d'architecture.
Design architectural.
architectural drawing (process)
linear perspective (technique)
perspective (technique)
Ästhetik

Added entries:

Carpo, Mario.
Lemerle, Frédérique.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254549
Call No.: BIB 184589
Status: Available