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Proportion: Science Philosophy Architecture
by Richard Padovan (Author),
Bookswagon (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: Proportion: Science Philosophy Architecture
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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781138628380
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Bookswagon
Publishing Date 1999-09
Total Pages 402