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Architecture and the crisis of modern science

Alberto Pérez Gómez c1983 © The MIT Press
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  • 9780262660556 (paper)
  • 9780262160919 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Architectural History
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  • Frontmatter
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  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix )
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  • INTRODUCTION: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CRISIS OF MODERN SCIENCE (page 3)
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  • I NUMBER AND ARCHITECTURAL PROPORTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
    • 1 CLAUDE PERRAULT AND THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF PROPORTION (page 17)
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    • 2 SYSTEMS OF PROPORTION AND NATURAL SCIENCE (page 49)
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  • II GEOMETRY AND ARCHITECTURAL MEANING IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
    • 3 GEOMETRICAL OPERATIONS AS A SOURCE OF MEANING (page 87)
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    • 4 SYMBOLIC GEOMETRY IN FRENCH ARCHITECTURE IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (page 129)
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  • III GEOMETRY AND NUMBER AS TECHNICAL INSTRUMENTS IN EARLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE
    • 5 PERSPECTIVE, GARDENING, AND ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION (page 165)
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    • 6 FORTIFICATION, MENSURATION, AND STEREOTOMY (page 203)
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    • 7 STATICS AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS (page 237)
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  • IV GEOMETRY, NUMBER, AND TECHNOLOGY
    • 8 POSITIVISM, DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, AND SCIENTIFIC BUILDING (page 271)
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    • 9 DURAND AND FUNCTIONALISM (page 297)
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  • NOTES (page 327)
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  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 371)
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  • INDEX (page 391)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 16.2 (Autumn 1985): 309-310 http://www.jstor.org/stable/204183
LEO 18.2 (1985): 119 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1577887
TC 25.4 (Oct. 1984): 900-902 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3104659
AB 69.1 (Mar. 1987): 153-155 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3051094
JArchE 38.2 (Winter 1985): 32 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1424818
ISIS 76. 2(Jun. 1985): 262-263 http://www.jstor.org/stable/231793
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