Entrée principale:

Padovan, Richard.

Titre et auteur:

Proportion : science, philosophy, architecture / Richard Padovan.

Publication:

London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1999.

Description:

xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-382) and index.
The harmony of the world made manifest in Form and Number -- Abstraction and empathy -- Unit and multiplier -- The house as model for the universe -- The proportions of the Parthenon -- Plato: order out of chaos -- Aristotle: change, continuity and the unit -- Euclid: the golden section and the five regular solids -- Vitruvius -- Gothis proportions -- Renaissance architecture -- Renaissance cosmology -- The world as a machine -- Turning from the outer to the inner world -- The golden section and the golden module -- Knowing by not knowing -- Where do we go from here?

Résumé:

This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with an illustrated and comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underly the main systems.

Ressources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0419227806 (pbk.)
9780419227809 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Bouwkunst.
Filosofie.
Architecture Philosophy.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 211147
Cote: NA44.P124.A35 1999
Statut: Disponible