Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture by Maarten Delbeke
Brand: Leiden University Press
Product Description
Prior to the advent of modern structural engineering architects and builders used proportional systems to imbue their works with a general condition of order that was integral to notions of beauty and structural stability. These mostly invisible intellectual frameworks ranged from simple grids and symbolic numbers to sly manipulations of geometry and numbers that required privileged knowledge and arithmetical calculations to access. Since the origins of architectural history proportional systems have served as objects of belief and modes of iconographical communication. Whether they are capable of fulfilling more tangible functions remains a matter of debate today but as the contributors to this volume show these ancient and diverse belief systems continue to infiltrate architectural thinking in subtle and sometimes surprising ways today.show more
Condition : New
Author : Maarten Delbeke
Weight : 1684
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Language : English
EAN : 9789087282776
ISBN10 : 908728277X
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20170401
Place of Publication : Netherlands
Pagination : 600 Pages 10 Illustrations Color 229 Illustrations Black And White
Dimensions : 216 X 303 X 40