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Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

Perez-Gomez, Alberto

Paperback

General ArchitectureGeneral PhotographyArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0262660555
ISBN13: 9780262660556
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 11 1985
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.97 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today.

Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Throughout, it relates the major architectural treatises of successive generations to the larger culture and the writings of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers.

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