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architectural mathematics
Author_Richard Padovan
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classical geometry
design theory
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historical architecture analysis
mathematical aesthetics
mathematical systems in architectural design
spatial harmony
Product details
- ISBN 9781138133174
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
