Main entry:

Evans, Robin, 1944-1993.

Title & Author:

The projective cast : architecture and its three geometries / Robin Evans.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.

Description:

xxxvii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-401) and index.
Introduction: Composition and Projection -- Ch. 1. Perturbed Circles -- Ch. 2. Persistent Breakage -- Ch. 3. Seeing through Paper -- Ch. 4. Piero's Heads -- Ch. 5. Drawn Stone -- Ch. 6. The Trouble with Numbers -- Ch. 7. Comic Lines -- Ch. 8. Forms Lost and Found Again -- Ch. 9. Rumors at the Extremities -- Conclusion: The Projective Cast.

Summary:

In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before his death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building.
He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
From the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's Sant'Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture.
In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory.

ISBN:

0262050498
9780262050494
0262550385 (pbk.)
9780262550383 (pbk.)

Subject:

Literaturgruppe Perspektive
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Geometry in architecture.
Geometry.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Géométrie en architecture.
Géométrie.
geometry.
Architektur
Proportionslehre
Geometrie
Ästhetik
Bouwkunst.
Proporties.
Geometrische aspecten.
Architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117384
Call No.: ID NA2760.E93; ID:95-B136
Status: Available