Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Consideration

Matthew Cohen; Maarten Delbeke

doi:10.24415/9789400602878

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-277-6
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0287-8
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 567
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
1. 1 Two Kinds of Proportion No access
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1. 2 Canons of Proportion and the Laws of Nature No access Pages 61 - 70
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2. 3 The Composto Ordinato of Michelangelo’s Biblioteca Laurenziana No access Pages 71 - 90
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3. 4 Subjective Proportions No access Pages 91 - 112
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4. 5 Were Early Modern Architects Neoplatonists? No access Pages 113 - 128
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5. 6 Plotting Gothic No access Pages 129 - 146
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6. 7 To Build Proportions in Time, or Tie Knots in Space? No access Pages 147 - 158
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1. 8 1, 2, 3, 6: Early Gothic Architecture and Perfect Numbers No access Pages 161 - 182
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2. 9 Proportion and Building Material No access Pages 183 - 198
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3. 10 Approaches to Architectural Proportion and the “Poor old Parthenon” No access Pages 199 - 232
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4. 11 Scamozzi’s Orders and Proportions No access Pages 233 - 248
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5. 12 Early Modern Netherlandish Artists on Proportion in Architecture No access Pages 249 - 276
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6. 13 Proportional Design Systems in 17th-Century Holland No access Pages 277 - 294
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7. 14 The Matrix Regained No access Pages 295 - 316
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8. 15 Dynamic Unfolding and the Conventions of Procedure No access Pages 317 - 344
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1. 16 Divining Proportions in the Information Age No access Pages 347 - 360
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2. 17 Decoding the Pantheon Columns No access Pages 361 - 380
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3. 18 Leonardo da Vinci No access Pages 381 - 396
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4. 19 Philibert de L’Orme’s Divine Proportions No access Pages 397 - 414
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5. 20 An old problem? No access Pages 415 - 434
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1. 21 Le Corbusier’s Modulor and the Debate on Proportion in France No access Pages 437 - 462
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2. 22 Between Looking and Making No access Pages 463 - 492
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3. 23 Rudolph Wittkower versus Le Corbusier No access Pages 493 - 510
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4. 24 Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture No access Pages 511 - 522
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1. 25 Ten Principles for the Study of Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture No access
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Index No access Pages 551 - 566