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This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.

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• The Harmony of the World Made Manifest in Form and Number
• Abstraction and Empathy
• Unit and Multiplier
• The House as Model for the Universe
• The Proportions of the Parthenon
• Plato: Order Out of Chaos
• Aristotle: Change, Continuity and the Unit
• Euclid: The Golden Section and the Five Regular solids
• Vitruvius
• Gothis Proportions
• Renaissance Artchitecture
• Renaissance Cosmology
• The World as a Machine
• Turning from the Outer to the Inner World
• The Golden Section and the Golden Module
• Knowing by Not Knowing
• Where Do We Go From Here?

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Padovan's important new book surveys 25 centuries of theoretical concern for proportion in architecture in relationship to philosophy and science. The author does not break any new ground, but in its assessment of this difficult and complicated subject matter and in the rectitude of its judgments, his book is unsurpassed; it is likely to become a classic in its field. Indeed, it puts proportion in proportion. Padovan has been working on this book for more than 30 years, and the result is well worth the effort. He starts with the pre-Socratics and ends with Le Corbusier, considering everything in between with remarkable clarity and lack of cant, including the writings of Rudolf Wittkower. Unlike Wittkower, Padovan is an empiricist. That is, he doubts the efficacy of proportional systems as guarantors of beauty. Indeed, he questions the whole macrocosm-microcosm simile by which architecture as an artificial thing is supposed to imitate nature, the God-given providence of the world, through the provision and provenance of proportion. Padovan is a practicing architect and lecturer at the University of Bath, England; he has published two previous books on the Dutch architect Ham van der Laan. Graduate students; faculty and researchers. P. Kaufman; Boston Architectural Center