Pérez Gómez, Alberto  1949- <br/><br/>
Architecture and the crisis of modern science. /  txt 
 Génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.  txt 
Alberto Pérez-Gómez. 
 - x, 400 p.  ill. ; photo ; plans ;   24 cm.  book 
<br/><br/> Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 371-390. 
<br/><br/>Number and architectural proportion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries --<br/>Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science --<br/>Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion --<br/>Systems of proportion and natural science --<br/>Geometry and architectural meaning in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries --<br/>Geometrical operations as a source of meaning --<br/>Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century --<br/>Geometry and number as technical instruments in early modern architecture --<br/>Perspective, gardening, and architectural education --<br/>Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy --<br/>Statics and strength of materials --<br/>Geometry, number, and technology --<br/>Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building --<br/>Durand and functionalism -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262160919 9780262160919  9780262660556 0262660555 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--History--Europe--17th century.<br/>Architecture--Philosophy.<br/>Functionalism Architecture--Europe.<br/>Functionalism.--Architecture<br/>Architecture--History--Europe--18th century.<br/>Architecture, Modern<br/>Architecture--Theories--1625-1850
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA956  / P413 1988 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1