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Author : Wolfgang Herrmann
Publisher : London : A. Zwemmer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015011969535
Author : Claude Perrault
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892362325
Perrault argues that rules of architecture be determined by reason, not by ancient precedent.
Author : Anthony Gerbino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135694876
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture.
Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980108
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
Author : Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262660556
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. The book leads the reader through the controversy that was generated by Claude Perrault in the seventeenth century. His writings began to cast doubt on the absolute aesthetic value of the classical orders and the "perfect" proportions that were architecture's legacy from Pythagorean times. Thus the once immutable "invisible" system lost its special status forever. The book focuses in particular on eighteenth-century developments in the science of mechanics and emerging techniques in structural analysis which slowly entered the architectural treatises and found their way into practice, often by way of civil and military engineers. And by the nineteenth century, the book notes, even architectural rendering and drawing were radically changed through the introduction of new descriptive and projective geometries. Tracing these fundamental changes in architectural intentions, Pérez-Gómez challenges many popular misconceptions about the theory and history of modern architecture. At the same time, he suggests an intangible loss, that of a culture's power to express through a building its total mathematical, mystical, and magical world-view.
Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892361991
Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
Author : Christopher Tadgell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429534164
This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescot’s designs for expanding the former in the mid-16th century to the successive grands projets for the transformation of the latter over the course of the 18th century. Detailed architectural analysis is set in the context of the development of the medieval monarchy towards absolutism, the significance of Hispano-Burgundian court etiquette as a formative influence on planning, and the effect of the French monarchy’s financial incontinence on royal building ambitions. On the basis of exhaustive original research, recalling contemporary testimony and re-examining the works themselves, the book challenges recent scholarly accounts of the contributions of Claude Perrault and François Mansart to the Louvre and demonstrates the influence of schemes by Italian masters Pietro Cortona and Bernini on Ange-Jacques Gabriel’s designs for rebuilding Versailles. Finally, the book looks at the influence of the great French palaces on those seeking to emulate their ambition, from Stockholm in the late 17th century to the deliriously opulent late 19th-century palace of Ludwig II of Bavaria at Herrenchiemsee. The book includes a wealth of illustrative material and supporting documents, which bring this comprehensive and authoritative text to life.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719041295
Provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It looks at how the architect generates architectural form in order to explain a number of issues, including the origins of style, the persistence of tradition and the role of genius.
Author : Vignola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Architecture
ISBN : SRLF:A0012355707
Author : K. A. E. Enenkel,Koen Ottenheym,Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Arts and history
ISBN : 9004377689
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create "national", regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe.
Author : Wolfgang Herrmann
Publisher : Editions Mardaga
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2870091222
Author : Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aesthetics, French
ISBN : 0892362359
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
Author : Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892365807
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Author : Peter Sahlins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935408277
Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
Author : Dalibor Vesely
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262220679
Reclaiming the humanistic role of architecture in the age of technology: an examination of architecture's indispensable role as a cultural force throughout history.