Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design TheoryManchester University Press, 15. 6. 1995 - 306 strán (strany) Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory’s central question: how does the architect generate architectural form? Theorists necessarily tackle this fundamental question in order to explain a number of puzzling issues including the origins of style, the persistence of tradition and the role of genius. This book describes the major design theories in eight chronological periods, conveying their flavour with contemporary quotations. Each theory is analysed for its strengths and weaknesses. Gelernter identifies an important relationship between theories of design and theories of knowledge, and so explains and analyses each period’s dominant epistemological concepts. Contemporary theorists of education are also examined, as many theorists from Vitruvius to Gropius included precepts for teaching as integral components of their ideas. |
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The ancient world | 2 |
Pierre Vignon The Madeleine 180449 | 13 |
Gestalt diagram | 16 |
Theories of knowledge and creation | 22 |
The origins of design theory and education | 36 |
Plan of Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut c 1480 | 42 |
The Greek revolution in philosophy | 44 |
The Platonic solids Mark Gelernter after Stevens | 51 |
Alberti S Andrea Mantua designed 1470 Fratelli Alinari | 102 |
Michelangelo Rondanini Pietà c 155464 Art Resource | 109 |
Jan Vermeer Kitchen Maid c 1658 Art Resource | 136 |
Peter Paul Rubens Fall of the Damned 161418 Art | 143 |
The Enlightenment | 153 |
Thomas Gainsborough Market Cart 1787 National | 162 |
Jacques Louis David The Death of Marat 1793 Art | 171 |
The nineteenth century | 185 |
Greek art and architecture theory | 54 |
Shift from the secular to the divine | 69 |
Medieval cathedral geometry Mark Gelernter after | 76 |
Scholasticism | 80 |
Giovanni Pisano Virgin and Child c 1305 | 86 |
The Renaissance | 92 |
Leonardo da Vinci Madonna and Saint Anne c 150113? | 95 |
The twentieth century 1 | 220 |
87 | 224 |
The twentieth century II | 256 |
Bibliography | 292 |
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