Format:
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)
ISBN:
9780203968109
,
9781134117031
,
9781134117079
,
9781134117086
Content:
This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. Temple argues that underlying the symbolic and epistemological meanings of perspective there prevails a deeply embedded redemptive view of the world that is deemed perfectible. Temple explores this idea through a genealogical investigation of the cultural and philosophical contexts of perspective throughout history, highlighting how these developments influenced architectural thought. This broad historical enquiry is accompanied by a series of case-studies of modern or contemporary buildings, each demonstrating a particular affinity with the accompanying historical model of perspective.
Content:
1. Order and chaos, or, "What to leave out?" -- 2. Number, geometry and dialectic -- 3. Light, memory and colour -- 4. Topography, rhetoric and the vanishing point -- 5. Unity and multiplicity -- 6. Nature and immensity -- 7. Disjointed views.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415416535
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415283571
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415416535
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Case studies
DOI:
10.4324/9780203968109
