UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC674675
Format:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781139045131
Content:
This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Note on Dates and Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Challenges of Analysis and Interpretation -- Drawing and the Invention of Architecture -- Vision, Philosophy, and the Art of Building -- Audience, Structure, and Approach -- One: The Ideas of Architecture -- Reduced-Scale Drawing -- The Strange Case of Ichnography -- The Parthenon's Ground Plan -- Alternative Justifications for Ichnography -- Number, Geometry, and Seeing -- Geometry, Craftsmanship, and Cosmic Mechanism -- Summary and Conclusion: Architectural Ideas -- Two: Vision and Spatial Representation -- Seeing the Universe -- Theorizing Vision -- Geometry and the Cosmos -- Geometric Underpinnings of Ichnography and Astronomy -- The Theater and the City -- The Theater as the City -- The City and the Cosmos -- Craftsmanship, Painting, and Plato's Diagrams of Daidalos -- Three: The Genesis of Scale Drawing and Linear Perspective -- Single-Axis Protraction -- The Graphic Basis of Horizontal Curvature -- A New Analysis of the Working Drawings -- Constructing Entasis at Didyma -- Segesta and the Parthenon -- Single-Axis Protraction Reconsidered -- Radial Protraction -- Linear Perspective and the Birth of Architecture -- Four: Architectural Vision -- Nature and Architectural Vision -- Ichnography in the Ionian Tradition of Pytheos and Hermogenes -- Beyond Hermogenes: From Kos to Rome -- Vision, Drawing, and Building -- Excursus: Envisioning Cosmic Mechanism in Plato and Vitruvius -- Appendix A: Analysis of the Dimensions of the Blueprint for Entasis at Didyma -- Appendix B: Analysis of the Hypothetical Working Drawing for Platform Curvature at Segesta -- Appendix C: Analysis of the Hypothetical Working Drawing for Platform Curvature in the Parthenon -- Notes
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Introduction: Challenges of Analysis and Interpretation -- Chapter One. The Ideas of Architecture -- Chapter Two. Vision and Spatial Representation -- Chapter Three. The Genesis of Scale Drawing and Linear Perspective -- Chapter Four. Architectural Vision -- Excursus: Envisioning Cosmic Mechanism in Plato and Vitruvius -- Appendix A. Analysis of the Dimensions of the Blueprint for Entasis at Didyma -- Appendix C. Analysis of the Hypothetical Working Drawing for Platform Curvature in the Parthenon -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Senseney, John R. The Art of Building in the Classical World New York : Cambridge University Press,c2011 ISBN 9781107002357
Language:
English
Keywords:
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