ISBN:
9783319059983
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Archimedes Ser. v.38
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
720.92
Keywords:
Architecture ; History..
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Mathematics ; History..
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Architecture ; Mathematics ; History
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift 2007
Abstract:
This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts.?It takes an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, which unites scholarship in early modern architecture with recent work in the history of science, in particular, on the role of practice in the "scientific revolution".?As a contribution to architectural history, the volume contextualizes design and construction in terms of contemporary mathematical knowledge, attendant forms of mathematical practice, and relevant social distinctions between the mathematical professions.?As a contribution to the history of science, the volume presents a series of micro-historical studies that highlight issues of process, materiality, and knowledge production in specific, situated, practical contexts.?Our approach sees the designer's studio, the stone-yard, the drawing floor, and construction site not merely as places where the architectural object takes shape, but where mathematical knowledge itself is deployed, exchanged, and amplified among various participants in the building proces.
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Scholars and Practitioners at Milan Cathedral -- "High" and "Low" Mathematics: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger -- From the Mathematical to the Physical Sciences: Pierre Bullet -- Aims and Scope of the Volume -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- Part I: Foundations -- Notes -- References -- Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruvius's De Architectura -- The Atrium of the Country House -- The Length-to-Width Ratio of the Atrium, A:a -- Aisle Width to Atrium Length, L:A -- Tablinium Width to Atrium Width, T:a -- Fauces Width to Tablinium Width, f:T -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- Part II: Mathematics and Material Culture in Italian Renaissance Architecture -- The Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building all'Antica -- Correcting Irregularities -- Composition and Planning -- Construction -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- Practical Mathematics in the Drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger -- "New Math" Education: Numbers, Algorism, and Measurement -- Practical Mathematics and Design -- Pragmatism and Theory -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- Geometric Survey and Urban Design: A Project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555-1559) -- Planning with UA 4180 -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- Part III: The Baroque Institutional Context -- Architecture and Mathematics in Early Modern Religious Orders -- The Orders -- The Architects -- Architecture, Science, and Vocation -- Notes -- Photographic Credits -- References -- The Master of Painted Architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S. J. and His Treatise on Perspective -- Life and Work -- Authors and Approaches in the Literature on Perspective -- Pozzo's Perspectiva -- The Two Methods.
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