Architectonics of Humanism
Architectonics of Humanism

Author: Lionel March

Publisher:

Published: 1998-12-08

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.

Platonic Architectonics
Platonic Architectonics

Author: John Shannon Hendrix

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780820471105

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Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies & the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications. It examines elements of Plato's philosophical systems in relation to other philosophical systems, including those of Anaximander, Plotinus, Proclus, Nicolas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida. It also examines Plato's philosophy in relation to architectonic conceptions in the arts, including the work of Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca in the Renaissance, Paul Cezanne, and the Cubists and Deconstructivists in the twentieth century. Platonic Architectonics presents new interpretations of philosophical texts, artistic treatises, and works of art and architecture in Western culture as they are interrelated and related to Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophical structures. It demonstrates the importance of philosophy in the production of the visual arts throughout history and the importance of the relation between the work of art and the philosophical text and artistic treatise.

Nexus Network Journal 10,2
Nexus Network Journal 10,2

Author: Kim Williams

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 3764387661

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This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary.

Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture

Author: Leland M. Roth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 1193

ISBN-13: 042997521X

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This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.

Proportion
Proportion

Author: Richard Padovan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1135811105

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This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

Author: Rudolf Wittkower

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780393005998

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Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.

Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton
Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton

Author: David Ian Galbraith

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780802044518

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Exploring the boundaries between poetry and history on three of England's epic literary works, Galbraith argues that they enter into a dialogue with classical and contemporary predecessors with implications for understanding the English Renaissance.

Disclosing Horizons
Disclosing Horizons

Author: Nicholas Temple

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-11-22

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1134117086

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Examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical changes in the representation and perception of space in history continue to inform the way architects design.