TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
TI  - Architecture and the crisis of modern science.
SN  - 0262160919
AV  - NA956 P413 1988
U1  - 720.1 22
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :  
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Local
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Functionalism Architecture
KW  - Functionalism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - Theories
KW  - 1625-1850
N1  - Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 371-390; 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 --
ER  -