Main entry:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Title & Author:

Architecture and the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1983.

Description:

x, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revised translation of: Le génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science -- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism.
Translation of: La génesis y superación del funcionalismo en arquitectura.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262160919
9780262160919
9780262660556
0262660555

Subject:

Architecture Europe History 17th century.
Architecture Europe History 18th century.
Functionalism (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Europe 18th century.
Architecture Europe 17e siècle.
Architecture Europe 18e siècle.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture.
Functionalism (Architecture)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Geometrie
Geschichte
Mathematik
Bouwkunst.
Functionalisme.
Filosofie.
Architecture, Modern Europe History.
Geschichte (1600-1800)
Geschichte (1650-1850)
Geschichte (1500-1900)
Europe.
Architecture Theories, 1625-1850

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 39081
Call No.: ID NA956.P413; ID:88-B9846
Status: Available

Location: Library main 39082
Call No.: ID PO1662 NA956.P413; ID:88-B9846
Status: Available