Title & Author:

Perception & Proportion / [presented by] Anne Tyng.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Anne Tyng -- Kimbell Museum By Louis I. Kahn -- Left: Numbers As Form. Right: Pascal's Triangle -- Top: Close-Packing Law. Bottom: Langley Circular Windows -- Super Pythagorean Theorem -- Structure Of A Flower Or Intuition -- Systems Of Measure Based On The Human Body -- Left: Gibson's Field Of Binocular Vision. Right: Fields Of Fusion & Perceiving -- Isometric Views Of St. Peter's Rome: Top: From The Obelisk. Bottom: From The Steps -- Five Platonic Solids Drawn By Leonardo da Vinci; Sangai's Universe -- Left: Bilateral Symmetry. Right: Crystal -- Yale Art Gallery By Louis I. Kahn -- Walworth Tyng House By Anne Tyng -- Top: Rotational Symmetry. Bottom: Radiolaria -- Dome Of The Duomo, Florence -- Persian Dome -- Left: Helical Symmetry. Right: DNA Molecule -- Leonardo da Vinci's Double Helix Stair -- Proposed City Tower By Louis I. Kahn & Anne Tyng -- Top: Spiral Symmetry. Bottom: Nautilus Shell -- Top: Guggenheim Museum, New York, By Frank Lloyd Wright. Bottom: Ziggurat Of Samarra -- Left: Renaissance City Plan. Right: Catalano's City -- Left: Gothic Master Diagram. Right: Tyng's 20th Century Matrix -- Le Thoronet Abbey, Southern France.

Summary:

Anne Tyng, long-time collaborator of Louis I. Kahn in his Philadelphia office, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She currently has a Graham Foundation Grant to do research on "human scale in cities". She says: "We see as a result of how we are made. A similar geometry orders natural form and human perception. An order based on a sequence of geometric principles underlies the evolution of natural forms. The same ordering sequence appears in architectural history as the underlying geometry of changing 'styles'. What has been called 'styles' of architecture occurs as the result of shifting phases of form empathy in human consciousness. As an extension of the evolution of natural forms, the evolution of human consciousness follows the same geometric ordering system Out of these fundamental patterns of perceiving, the human spirit has transformed the geometry of natural systems to symbols in architecture, in science and in art".

Subject:

Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Architecture Esthétique.

Added entries:

Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011, narrator.

Perception and Proportion