Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 April 1985
Summary
This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today.Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice D…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262660556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262660555 |
| Author: | Alberto Pérez-Gómez |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 11 April 1985 |
| Weight: | 658g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science |
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Critics Review
“Geometry was demoted from its regal status as the generator of forms to being the servant of surveyors and engineers. It is a paradox that this happened as techniques of mensuration and construction, as well as geometrical speculation, intensified. Perez-Gomez has placed this paradox in its proper context, scientific and philosophical. But most important to me, he has shown how much that is done and written about architecture nowadays is a direct consequence of that demotion. This book is essential for anyone who believes that architecture must reaffirm its role as the theatre of memory and metaphor-that there is no such thing as a meaningless structure.” Joseph Rykwert
About The Author
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Alberto Perez G mez directs the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill University, where he is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built upon Love- Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
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