Architectonics of Humanism
Title | Architectonics of Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel March |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1998-12-08 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
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.
Architectonics of Humanism
Title | Architectonics of Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel March |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1997-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781854905000 |
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
Title | Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Wittkower |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780393005998 |
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.
Nexus Network Journal 10,2
Title | Nexus Network Journal 10,2 PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Williams |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2008-12-16 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 3764387661 |
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.
Proportion
Title | Proportion PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Padovan |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135811105 |
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.
The Architecture of Humanism
Title | The Architecture of Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Scott |
Publisher | New York : Houghton Mifflin |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |
Understanding Architecture
Title | Understanding Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Leland M. Roth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1193 |
Release | 2018-03-13 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 042997521X |
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.