Pérez Gómez, Alberto 1949- creator text bibliography mau 1983 monographic eng

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x, 400 p. ill. ; photo ; plans ; 24 cm. Number and architectural proportion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science -- Geometry and architectural meaning in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Geometry and number as technical instruments in early modern architecture -- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Geometry, number, and technology -- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism -- Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 371-390. Architecture Europe History 17th century Architecture Philosophy Functionalism Architecture Europe Functionalism Architecture Architecture Europe History 18th century Architecture, Modern Architecture Theories 1625-1850 NA956 P413 1988 720.1 0262160919 9780262160919 9780262660556 0262660555 pucpr 030910 20210922183505.0 eng