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Terms and conditions applyProportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture
Richard Padovan
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Format: Book
Pages: 400
Publisher: E & FN Spon
Date Published: Dec 1999
Stock Code: 17683
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Binding: Paperback
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Richard Padovan starts Proportion by responding to the theories of Wittkower
and explaining the theory of 'abstraction' and 'empathy'. He moves on to an
original interpretation and exposition of the mathematics of proportion. The
main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy though
the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks
through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion
the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book includes
new proportional analysis of key buildings. Finally, the author reflects on
the present and future role of proportion in architecture.
and explaining the theory of 'abstraction' and 'empathy'. He moves on to an
original interpretation and exposition of the mathematics of proportion. The
main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy though
the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks
through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion
the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book includes
new proportional analysis of key buildings. Finally, the author reflects on
the present and future role of proportion in architecture.
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